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For quite a while now, apache-2.4 can make use of the http2 (SPDY) protocol via nghttp2 package.
Unfortunately I had quite some trouble getting the protocol to work on my apache webserver and I couldn't figure out what the issue was until I enabled debugging for that module:

${EDITOR} /etc/apache2/modules.d/41_mod_http2.conf

Replace the line

# LogLevel http2:info

with

LogLevel http2:debug

and restart your apache server. Now try to access some site that should be served via HTTP2. After doing so, grep the apache log files for the following string:

grep -Fr "http2:debug" /var/log/apache2

and you should most likely find the problem with your HTTP2 setup.
Don't forget to disable debug logging again or else your log files will quickly become huge.

In my case it was a cipher combination that was not allowed to be used for HTTP2. After disabling the specific cipher, HTTP2 finally worked on my apache.

In Gentoo bug #601132 we want to switch from evdev as primary input driver for X to the shiny new libinput.
For me it turned out to be harder than expected as can be clearly seen in the bug.
Long story short, there's a couple of things users should keep in mind if they switch from evdev to libinput:

• Remove any XKBRules entries from your xorg configuration files or else you can get very strange (and wrong) key mappings for your keyboard.
• Packages that have the libinput USE flag shoud have it enabled and the package being re-emerged.
• Additionally the evdev USE flag should be disabled for the very same packages.