#11069 NORM Opportu: Remove libfprint & fprintd (was: 11.2.0 RC4 (873) package query)

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#11069: Remove libfprint & fprintd
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           Reporter:  cjl           |       Owner:  dsd          
               Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new          
           Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Opportunity  
          Component:  build-system  |     Version:  not specified
         Resolution:                |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  never set     |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:                |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:                |  
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Changes (by dsd):

  * milestone:  Not Triaged => Opportunity


Comment:

 Yes, there is no good reason for these packages to be included. Our build
 system does not request them. The reason that they are included is because
 they are a dependency of GNOME in Fedora.

 (you can use "rpm -e fprintd" to determine this - it is an unconditional
 dependency of GNOME's control center)

 This indeed should be improved - Fedora should be modified so that this is
 not a hard dependency. There are many such packages like this which
 could/should go, but removing them is not trivial and finding the time to
 work on this (balanced against more important issues) is hard.

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