alpine requires PAM?! $ emerge -p alpine
These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pam-1.2.1 USE="berkdb cracklib pie -audit -debug -nis -nls (-selinux) {-test} -vim-syntax" [ebuild N ] sys-auth/pambase-20150213 USE="cracklib nullok sha512 -consolekit -debug -gnome-keyring -minimal -mktemp -pam_krb5 -pam_ssh -passwdqc -securetty (-selinux) -systemd" [ebuild N ] virtual/pam-0-r1 [ebuild N ] mail-client/alpine-2.00-r5 USE="chappa ipv6 passfile smime ssl -doc -kerberos -ldap -nls -onlyalpine -spell -threads -topal" I have a PAM-free system. I've been using alpine 2.20 on Slackware 14.1 without PAM. Is there a technical reason for forcing the use of PAM on gentoo? TIA Jorge Almeida