Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Sunday 20 Nov 2005 7:16 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> equery hasuse pam > > > Wow!!! I performed that thing on my system and the stupid PAM is > everywhere (I am scared as shit after reading this thread). What > would be the easiest way to get rid of PAM from a single user desktop > system working smoothly? Would a -pam in make.conf and emerge -uDN > world suffice? > > Abhay
Just because you have a lot of packages installed that have the "pam" USE flag doesn't mean that much-- is the flag actually enabled for those packages? If so, and your system is not having any issues, I wouldn't necessarily become hysterical just yet. But if you really are concerned, and want to remove it, you might consider the following wiki entry, and then think about it before making a decision: http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Remove_PAM HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list