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From: Sergey Kobzar <tod.zullu@×××××.com>
To: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:05:44
Message-Id: 18337142.20080214005833@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge? by Willie Wong
1 Hi Willie,
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3 So, I can unmerge hashalot and attr safely.
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5 How can I add pwdb to the system (or maybe world is more correct)
6 class?
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9 Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 11:22:54 PM, you wrote:
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11 > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:03:42PM +0100, Henry Gebhardt wrote:
12 >> Where does equery get that from? emerge -e pam doesn't show pwdb as a
13 >> dependency. In fact, the ebuild checks whether you are using the pam_pwdb
14 >> module, and if you do, warns you about it. I for my part just removed pwdb,
15 >> and I can still log in as if nothing happend. (Also after a reboot.)
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18 > [04:18 PM]wwong pam $ emerge --pretend --emptytree pam | grep pwdb
19 > [ebuild R ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62
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21 > Also,
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23 > [04:20 PM]wwong pam $ grep -C 3 pwdb pam-0.99.9.0.ebuild
24 > RDEPEND="nls? ( virtual/libintl )
25 > cracklib? ( >=sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.3 )
26 > audit? ( sys-process/audit )
27 > sys-libs/pwdb
28 > selinux? ( >=sys-libs/libselinux-1.28 )"
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30 > So, yes, pwdb is a runtime dependency. I don't actually run pam, so can't
31 > confirm what would happen if I remove pwdb.
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33 > W
34 > --
35 > Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
36 > 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton
37 > A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
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42 Sergey
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>