Pavel Herrmann wrote:
> Well, empty in any way, something that could be used as "print not 
> enrolled" in scenario with the same number of fingers for each account 
> (something like 10 for human beings) so that the back-mapping is not 
> required. Theoretically something that will always being identified 
> against, maybe some number of zeros. (NULL pointer is not usable as it 
> is used as the last element in the array, if I remember well)

I don't know whether you're asking about existing libfprint API or 
dreaming up a new one, but existing libfprint API has no way to load 
multiple fingerprints from a file.

Glossing over the simplistic storage method (which is too basic for your 
needs), the advanced API takes a binary blob and converts it into print 
data. It doesn't know or care where the binary blob came from: file, 
thin air, or otherwise. So if you have users without enrolled 
fingerprints, thats your problem to deal with, not the library's.

> PS. for the dependency suggestion in the other thread, why do we have 
> (extended) USE in gentoo? there are LIRC_DEVICES and VIDEO_CARDS and 
> many others, why no FPRINT_DEVICES? I will try to have a look at this 
> one in the next week.

As noted in that thread there is currently no way to include or exclude 
drivers from compilation.

Daniel

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