Intra-Gentoo squabbles

Posted Mar 11, 2007 2:47 UTC (Sun) by ldo (guest, #40946)
In reply to: Daniel Robbins leaves Gentoo, again by marduk
Parent article: Daniel Robbins leaves Gentoo, again

Conway's Law comes to mind: "Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it".

Is that why I currently have some kind of block between updates to sys-apps/pam-login and sys-apps/shadow? Because the maintainers for those packages aren't talking to each other?

Intra-Gentoo squabbles

Posted Mar 11, 2007 6:14 UTC (Sun) by dirtyepic (guest, #30178) [Link] (1 responses)

It's because pam-login was merged into shadow (over a year ago actually). Try unmerging pam-login. This was mentioned in as many places as we could think of, like the changelog (emerge -avl shadow), forums, bugzilla, and planet, but it still requires you to actively look for an answer. We're working on a system to get news messages and alerts out to even the most oblivious of admins, but it's difficult when they don't even bother to look. ;)

pam-login blocking shadow

Posted Mar 16, 2007 10:15 UTC (Fri) by ldo (guest, #40946) [Link]

Thanks for that! I'll keep the tip in mind for future blockages as well.