On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any > cruft. > > This has me confused: > > >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: > > > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > > selected: 2.6.23-r6 > > protected: none > > omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.23-r8 > > > > sys-libs/pwdb > > selected: 0.62 > > protected: none > > omitted: none > > > > dev-java/jakarta-regexp > > selected: 1.3-r4 > > protected: none > > omitted: none
> I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal. The java thing wouldn't > exactly break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on, > well, wouldn't that be bad to remove? > > What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and > slow? o_O It's safe to delete. The pam_pwdb module is not used any more. There's a nice bug message in the ebuild that describes it. Did you follow the PAM Upgrade guide (URL in the ebuild) way back when? If so, just unmerge pwdb -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
