begin quote On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:20:11 +0200 Alex Efros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> without prob, but all software with optional XFree support will be > compiled without it. > Ohh, sorry!!! I've just rechecked /etc/make.profile/packages and > noticed > what there is no 'star' at line '>=x11-base/xfree-4.1.0-r12', so it > shouldn't be installed by `emerge system` at all, right? Well, python has "tcltk" as a USE flag, and tcltk is "tk", means "X" (its an X toolkit after all) so depending on your settings you may get X from "emerge system" > > > Hmm. I think it's simple enough to realize 'readlink' as bash-function > using 'ls -l'... but this isn't really important. Well, that is simple, but doesn't work for buildscripts , so its simpler to just provide it ;) > > > 7) bc > > Common unix standard tool, used by a lot of buildscripts. > > I don't know such buildscripts... Really: Well, we cheat. if something is mentioned in system it doesn't have to be a total DEPEND. okay, its bad form , but it eases calculation in a few cases. But if you find things that break without bc, tell us and we can fix the dep's. > > I've now checked /etc/make.profile/packages again, and all my > questions > about it content disappear: bc, dhcpd, debianutils, etc. is mostly > small > harmless things. Only question left is my initial question: do you > really think what PAM support is 100% required for anyone and should > be in 'system'? Is it safe to just unmerge pam and pam-login (I've > USE="-pam")? ... From my point of view, PAM is very good idea with > very bad realization - > there a number of bugs and security holes found from time to time in > PAM, > so it's safer to not use PAM if you don't need some PAM's features. > This is up for argument, I think pam-login is pulled in because shadow's login implementation had a -bad- case of login-fails-three-times and get root access. Frankly i haven't given it much thought myself, but Its a nice goal to see if you can cut out pam completely and not have things breaking. (please document it! ;) As seen, a lot of things are done because it eases support burden and doesn't break things. I'm pretty sure you can streamline a profile far more than this. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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