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Drop libevent and use our own event handling again.

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There are several reasons for this:

- MacOS/X doesn't support polling the tap device using kqueue, requiring a
  workaround to fall back to select().
- On Windows only sockets are properly handled, therefore tinc uses a second
  thread that does a blocking ReadFile() on the TAP-Win32/64 device. However,
  this does not mix well with libevent.
- Libevent, event just the core, is quite large, and although it is easy to get
  and install on many platforms, it can be a burden.
- Libev is more lightweight and seems technically superior, but it doesn't
  abstract away all the platform differences (for example, async events are not
  supported on Windows).
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@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ In order to compile tinc, you will need a GNU C compiler environment. Please
ensure you have the latest stable versions of all the required libraries:
- OpenSSL (http://www.openssl.org/) version 1.0.0 or later.
- Libevent (http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/)
The following libraries are used by default, but can be disabled if necessary: