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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: alpine
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:50:42 +0000 (UTC)
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Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a technical reason for forcing the use of PAM on gentoo?

No. You can use alpine from the mv overlay which has a pam useflag.