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On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any |
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> cruft. |
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> This has me confused: |
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> > >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: |
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> > |
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> > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources |
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> > selected: 2.6.23-r6 |
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> > protected: none |
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> > omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.23-r8 |
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> > |
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> > sys-libs/pwdb |
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> > selected: 0.62 |
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> > protected: none |
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> > omitted: none |
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> > |
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> > dev-java/jakarta-regexp |
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> > selected: 1.3-r4 |
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> > protected: none |
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> > omitted: none |
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> I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal. The java thing wouldn't |
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> exactly break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on, |
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> well, wouldn't that be bad to remove? |
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> What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and |
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> slow? o_O |
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It's safe to delete. The pam_pwdb module is not used any more. There's a |
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nice bug message in the ebuild that describes it. |
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Did you follow the PAM Upgrade guide (URL in the ebuild) way back when? |
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If so, just unmerge pwdb |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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