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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] alpine
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:12:44
Message-Id: CAKpSnpK-iS4Xrm-pvn4AGE3pV9oqFobuJ7jTFcouiw=GKsUCPg@mail.gmail.com
1 alpine requires PAM?!
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3 $ emerge -p alpine
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5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
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7 Calculating dependencies... done!
8 [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pam-1.2.1 USE="berkdb cracklib pie -audit
9 -debug -nis -nls (-selinux) {-test} -vim-syntax"
10 [ebuild N ] sys-auth/pambase-20150213 USE="cracklib nullok
11 sha512 -consolekit -debug -gnome-keyring -minimal -mktemp -pam_krb5
12 -pam_ssh -passwdqc -securetty (-selinux) -systemd"
13 [ebuild N ] virtual/pam-0-r1
14 [ebuild N ] mail-client/alpine-2.00-r5 USE="chappa ipv6 passfile
15 smime ssl -doc -kerberos -ldap -nls -onlyalpine -spell -threads
16 -topal"
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20 I have a PAM-free system. I've been using alpine 2.20 on Slackware
21 14.1 without PAM.
22 Is there a technical reason for forcing the use of PAM on gentoo?
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24 TIA
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26 Jorge Almeida

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[gentoo-user] Re: alpine Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>