On Wed, 31 May 2006, William Meertens wrote:

> > Take a look at the following page, it will tell you what you need to do.
> >
> > http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/flameeyes/2006/03/19/the_shadow_and_pam_login_conflict
>
> This explains it all, only I'm still curious why even with version 6.0 I'm 
> still getting both installed just fine. Hardly look at the messages since 
> Gentoo installs while I'm dreaming. Just as nice without complaining as my 
> dreams are.
>
> Only when doing an update later it starts to complain. Since Gentoo version 
> 5.0 I'm having this on all systems. Regardless the choice of installation.
>
> All my best,
> William.
>
> >
> > On Thursday, 1 June 2006 2:30, JimD wrote:
> > > I get this message when trying to do an emerge -vpuDN world:
> > >
> > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > >
> > > Calculating world dependencies  ..... ....... done!
> > >
> > > [blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)
> > >
> > > Do I need to remove sys-apps/shadow?  I thought that was part of system?
> > >
> > > Jim
> > > --
> > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > > There's no place like 127.0.0.1
> > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > > JimD
> > > Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol
> >
>
>
>

Do you have pam in your use flags? If so, it would make shadow do the job
of pam-login, thus creating the problem. If not, then they are both
welcome to be there.
-- 
[email protected] mailing list

Reply via email to