Christer Ekholm wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar
>><listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>>| I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo
>>| *REALLY* require pam?
>>
>>No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh.
> 
> 
> Is that really true. The simple experiment I just did (below), I
> interpreet as it's openoffice that wants pam.

Taken from the OOo ebuild

DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
        >=sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r1
        app-shells/tcsh
        dev-util/pkgconfig
        curl? ( net-misc/curl )
        zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib )
        sys-libs/pam
        !dev-util/dmake
        java? ( >=virtual/jdk-1.4.1 )
        !java? ( dev-libs/libxslt )"

thus is OOo thats bringing in pam.

I suppose, if you don't want pam, you could try removing the
sys-libs/pam line from the ebuild and seeing what happens :)

> 
> 23:52:25 poke:~ $sudo emerge -Dpv openoffice
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies -
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-libs/pam" have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
> - sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (masked by: package.mask)
> - sys-libs/pam-0.77-r8 (masked by: package.mask)
> - sys-libs/pam-0.77-r6 (masked by: package.mask)
> 
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or 
> section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
> !!!    (dependency required by "app-office/openoffice-1.1.4-r1" [ebuild])
> 
> 23:52:33 poke:~ $sudo emerge -Dpv tcsh
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] app-shells/tcsh-6.14  +perl 0 kB 
> 
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> 
> --
>  Christer
> 

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