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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:34:14
Message-Id: 20141005113406.GB1024@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 141005 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > In bug 524074 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524074),
3 > Joshua Kinard mentioned that Gentoo cannot support systems
4 > where PAM isn't installed. I'd like to know whether this is true or not,
5 > especially since no part of the system seems to actually require it.
6 > The issue at hand is that sudo links against -lshadow,
7 > which should not happen
8 > and therefore that link command <sb> removed from the build.
9
10 I don't have Pam installed nor Sudo.
11 I start my USE flags with '-*' (yes, I know ... (smile)).
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