On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > PAM is an *optional* dependency; you can compile the program "-pam" and
PAM is an *OPTIONAL PROGRAM*; build your system with... [m450][root][~]cat /etc/portage/package.mask sys-libs/pam in addition to "-pam" in use, and you will find Gentoo a lot more pleasant. One question... why does OpenOffice *DEMAND* PAM to build from source??? The binary ebuild installs OK without PAM. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list