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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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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