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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:58:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802270858.04602.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C5065A.9050406@bellsouth.net>

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any
> cruft.
>
> This has me confused:
> > >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
> >
> >  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> >     selected: 2.6.23-r6
> >    protected: none
> >      omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.23-r8
> >
> >  sys-libs/pwdb
> >     selected: 0.62
> >    protected: none
> >      omitted: none
> >
> >  dev-java/jakarta-regexp
> >     selected: 1.3-r4
> >    protected: none
> >      omitted: none

> I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal.  The java thing wouldn't
> exactly break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on,
> well, wouldn't that be bad to remove?
>
> What's the deal?  Remove it?  Remove it and death will be painful and
> slow?   o_O

It's safe to delete. The pam_pwdb module is not used any more. There's a 
nice bug message in the ebuild that describes it.

Did you follow the PAM Upgrade guide (URL in the ebuild) way back when? 
If so, just unmerge pwdb

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-27  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-27  6:42 [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove? Dale
2008-02-27  6:58 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-02-27  7:10   ` Dale
2008-02-27  7:04 ` Dirk Heinrichs

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