> Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> 
> >I just build my 2004.3 system from a stage3 install and went to update 
> >and I am seeing the following:
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] veldy # emerge --update --pretend world
> >
> >These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> >
> >Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> >[blocks B     ] sys-apps/pam-login (from pkg sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r2)
> >
> >
> >What does this mean?  How do I fix it?
> >i

emerge -C pam-login

> Hmm ... I guess it helps to have PAM in my USE variables.  I thought 
> this was a default and that it wasn't explicitly required?
>

No.  Pam is not required.  You may or may not want pam.  Some apps may need
the pam libs, or think they need it, but strictly speaking, pam is not required.

The choice is yours.

Bob
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