diff --git a/appends/oe-core/packagegroup-core-x11-xserver%.bbappend b/appends/oe-core/packagegroup-core-x11-xserver%.bbappend
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+# we want xf86-input-libinput and some BSP layers exceed their allowed limits :(
+XSERVER_remove = " xf86-input-evdev "