diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 743423f890..39ec28b027 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1418,3 +1418,4 @@ libSDL2-2.0.so.0 SDL2-2.0.0_1
 libcacard.so.0 libcacard-1.6.1_1
 libxcb-cursor.so.0 xcb-util-cursor-0.1.0_1
 libgldi.so.3 libgldi-3.3.1_1
+libevdev.so.1 libevdev-0.4_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libevdev-devel b/srcpkgs/libevdev-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..76747bd09e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libevdev-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libevdev
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libevdev/template b/srcpkgs/libevdev/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c81bc7ecb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libevdev/template
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Template file for 'libevdev'
+pkgname=libevdev
+version=0.4
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--disable-gcov"
+hostmakedepends="python"
+short_desc="Wrapper library for evdev devices"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libevdev/"
+distfiles="http://freedesktop.org/software/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
+checksum=ba6becd3f41430aa290ddf53694909fb46b9a65d5fe264e5fc2a4f5169484f42
+
+libevdev-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}
+
+libevdev_package() {
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove all
+	}
+}