[SM-Discuss] So we need linux-pam-headers?
Eric Sandall
eric at sandall.us
Mon Jun 16 18:19:18 EDT 2008
Quoting Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum at orgis.org>:
> Yeah, $SUBJECT ...
> I don't know how, but I stumbled over this spell through libcap failing.
> It found headers from linux-pam-headers but not the PAM library... thus
> broke the build.
>
> No idea why I had linux-pam-headers cast anyway, but looking at this
> spell really raises the question if it should (still) be there.
> Deprecate?
IIRC, some packages (such as openoffice) can use the linux-pam-headers
to build, for those whom don't want linux-pam itself installed and
taking over their system.
-sandalle
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