Mark Shields schreef: > I'd highly recommend you don't add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to your make > file, as this will cause your system to emerge with all ~x86 > (testing/unstable) packages upon next emerge. Add this to your > /etc/portage/package.keywords: >=sys-libs/pam-0.78 then emerge -pv > again. >
I agree that adding ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" is a bad idea if you want to run a (mostly) stable system, but *unmasking PAM is not the only solution!!!* PAM is an *optional* dependency; you can compile the program "-pam" and still use the unstable proftpd without having to also use an unstable PAM. I admit that I don't know how proftpd will react if the system as a whole is not PAM-free (like mine), but it itself is.... but since it is optional, it ought to work OK anyway (if PAM was a required dependency for the package, there wouldn't be a USE flag for it; it would just be installed). Or one could just use a stable version of proftpd which would not require an update to PAM, but instead use the version of PAM currently installed. Under Linux, if there's not at least two ways to do something, there's something wrong.... but under Gentoo, if there's not at least three ways to do something, you've (probably) missed (at least) one. :) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
