You need to pay more attention to details. Only virtual/pam has been masked
# required by virtual/pam (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Mikle Kolyada <[email protected]> (2019-10-16) # not needed due to openpam removal. Please # update your packages running emerge with the # --changed-deps option if you have problems # with your system. sys-libs/pam is still there. On 10/31/19 10:10 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:
<paranoia> Emperor penguin, brooding as usual: "I'm bored, how can we fuck with the users this week?" Chancelor penguin: "we can mask PAM for no reason. It has never caused anyone any problem but removing it will drive the users crazy for days trying to get their system working when they do emergency updates to try to fix the instability you caused last month when you let the kernel get out of sync with nvidia drivers to punish them for using proprietary drivers when, for many years those were the only ones that would work.." Emperor penguin: "Really, could it be possible?!" Chancelor Penguin: "Well, there's a 90% chance that the entire system can be built with pam disabled but it will require a massive re-build and disabling several dozen default-on useflags and r-dep packages to be removed. It will take the users DAYS AND DAYS! To solve it!" -- Later that day the emperor addressed a throng of tens of thousands of penguins -- Emperor Penguin "...Today, we once again re-assert our penguinosity by wasting yet more of the user's time with no reason whatsoever..." Crowd: "MASK PAM! MASK PAM! MASK PAM!!! LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR!!!" </paranoia>
