On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:17:08 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > My solution to simplify Gentoo... > > waltd...@d531 ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask > sys-libs/pam > sys-apps/dbus > sys-apps/hal
That's as much crippling as simplifying. You can do without pam and hal by setting appropriate USE flags (I run pam-free here by doing just that) but D-Bus provides a standard way for applications to communicate with one another and removing it can stop your desktop working as it should. -- Neil Bothwick WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
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