Created attachment 281083 [details, diff] virtualbox-4.0.12.ebuild.diff I dislike having PAM as a hard requirement in VirtualBox, especially as it is needed for something I don't really have a need for (the RDP stuff). Hence I took the patch from bug #351404 and enhanced it: Currently the VBoxAuth module is the only one using PAM, and VRDP is the only thing needing VBoxAuth (<-- this needs to be verified). Therefore I excluded VBoxAuth from building. This approach probably needs testing, and the warning message might be put to a more prominent place.
I don't have a Gentoo system without pam at hand so I have to rely on you or anybody else with a pam-less system to give me reliable testing results before I add this patch to portage. However I can add this patch to poly-c overlay so you guys don't have to patch the ebuild(s) yourself.
I am definitly not in the position to be a trusted tester: I use VBox only very seldomly and then only the most basic features. So my judgement of whether it works or not is not something one should rely on :). Regarding the overlay: I can only speak for myself, but as your overlay contains quite some patched stable packages (for instance pidgin or subversion), I'm a bit reluctant of adding this. I think for the moment, I'll stick with keeping the patch in my private repository.
This is now in the poly-c overlay. Please give it a thorough testing and report back here whether it works or not. I won't commit these changes into portage before I got positive reports in this bug.
+ 24 Oct 2011; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> virtualbox-4.0.12.ebuild, + virtualbox-4.1.2.ebuild, virtualbox-4.1.4.ebuild: + Forced python-2 on installation (bug #350237). Made the package's decription + the same as virtualbox-bin (bug #366305). Made pam support optional with + changes provided by René 'Necoro' Neumann (bug #376531). Added + vboxwebsrv<->java dependency to REQUIRED_USE (bug #382061). +
