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+# Copyright (C) 2025, Digi International Inc.
+
+# Even if you choose not to install some of these packages, having them present
+# in the recipe causes bitbake to always generate them, which pulls in a lot of
+# spurious build-time dependencies. Since these dependencies are already in the
+# higher level packagegroup recipes, remove them.
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-tflite:remove = " \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-tensorflow-lite \
+    tensorflow-lite \
+    tflite-vx-delegate \
+"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ort:remove = " \
+    onnxruntime \
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-onnxruntime \
+"
+
+# Removing ort/tflite runtime dependencies causes package QA errors because
+# they contain prebuilt libraries that link to onnxruntime/tensorflow-lite.
+# Skip the specific QA check causing the errors to be able to generate all
+# packages regardless of whether you end up installing them or not.
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-tflite:append = " file-rdeps"
+INSANE_SKIP:${PN}-ort:append = " file-rdeps"