Bug 98054 – Unnecessary dependency of the Postfix ebuild on PAM

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Devdas Bhagat 2005-07-05 14:30:58 UTC]

The Postfix ebuilds depend on PAM. This is an unnecessary dependency.
Postfix uses Cyrus-SASL for authentication, and not PAM directly. Hence, the
dependency should be in the Cyrus-SASL ebuild, and not the Postfix ebuild.

Reproducible: Always
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A temporary workaround it to use USE=-pam when emerging Postfix. However, the
right solution is to remove the PAM dependency.

Removing the PAM dependency also renders postfix-2.2.4.ebuild stable.

[Comment 1 Tuan Van (RETIRED) 2005-07-05 21:38:21 UTC]

yes, postfix shouldn't depend on virtual/pam. But the pam USE flag should stay,
so we can optionally install /etc/pam.d/smtp file.

[Comment 2 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2005-07-31 05:39:52 UTC]

In fact thats completely wrong; Postfix uses PAM to guess system users and to
deliver their mail. The dependency is not needed because it is carried by the
mailbase package.

Cheers,
Ferdy

[Comment 3 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2005-08-04 00:02:10 UTC]

Forgot to close.

Cheers,
Ferdy