>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> writes:
Mark> Hi all, Not sure the right forum to raise this - please
Mark> redirect me as appropriate :)
Mark> I was checking Debian on my Lenovo P1 G3 today (using testing
Mark> latest) and figured I'd have another stab at getting the
Mark> fingerprint working - something I've not had much success with
Mark> previously on Debian.
Mark> It turned out to be really quite easy - just installed fprintd
Mark> and libpam-fprint and the reader is working nicely.
Mark> Is there any interest, as fingerprint reader functionality is
Mark> now improving so much on Linux, to have these packages
Mark> installed by default? All the new Linux certified Lenovo
Mark> laptops should work - and I'm pretty sure other vendors have
Mark> the same. I'm not sure how it's decided which packages are
Mark> installed by default or if this is a controversial request :)
As you've seen Debian as a whole is not the best at having discussions
like this.
Fortunately we're good at delegating.
I'm not sure we want these packages installed by default on a server for
example.
For an environment that is trying to compete with Mac or say ChromeOS, it seems
fairly clear we would want that feature.
The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the desktop
environments.
So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE and see if they are
interested in recommending this functionality.
--Sam
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