[gentoo-user] Re: Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

[Christer Ekholm]

"James Homuth" <james@×××××××.com> writes:
> Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM?

I have used Gentoo at home for many years now. And I have never used
pam.

I even have

 # Don't want these, ever
 >sys-libs/pam-0

In /etc/portage/package.mask so that I detect if anything wants to pull
in pam.  A few times some ebuild tried to pull in pam dispite of
USE=-pam, but that has allways been corrected by our devs.

I don't actually dislike pam, it's quite good, and useful many times,
it's just that I don't need it (yet).  The most important point is
choise. I can decide myself if I want it or not. And thats what Gentoo
is all about (for me).

--
 Christer