[gentoo-user] Re: Where to put own keyboard variants

[walt]

Sebastian Dörner wrote:

Hi,
some time ago I created a variant for the us xkb-layout by adding

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "my_variant" {
  include "latin"

//my changes here
};

to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us...

Are you saying you edited that file by hand?  If so, why not just
rename it sebastian-us and leave it where it is.  That way it will
be safe from future updates.