> > I understand it is not required. However, it always was the default. > When did it cease being a default USE variable. >
Looking at the shadow Changelog, the ebuilds were updated on 23 Nov 2004 for shadow-4.0.5-r{2,3}, and shadow-4.0.6, all based on bug 67815 - Remove PAM requirement in Gentoo. Bob -- - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list