Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] update world issue (oops)
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:43:53
Message-Id: 1149770086.2256.1.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] update world issue (oops) by maillists
1 On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 23:32 -0400, maillists wrote:
2 > pam and shadow are both very important, I can't see unmerging any of
3 > these. What should I do...
4
5 You should unmerge pam-login and utempter just like portage is asking
6 you to do, then continue with your updates.
7
8 Blockers occur because something changed in the tree. In this case,
9 shadow now provides the functionality that pam-login once did, which is
10 why shadow blocks pam-login.
11
12 There's a pretty simple rule. If you have a blocker, remove your
13 blocker. The developers don't just put in blockers for no reason. ;]
14
15 Thanks,
16
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18 Chris Gianelloni
19 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
20 x86 Architecture Team
21 Games - Developer
22 Gentoo Linux

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