Alpine compiles and works fine without pam (when the $FILESDIR/2.00-lpam.patch is not applied, of course); tested on amd64 and x86. Since the previous alternative mail-client/pine is going to be removed from portage, please make this pam dependency optional. (BTW: I have not checked _with_ pam, but I guess if alpine is compiled with 2.00-lpam.patch it should also have virtual/pam in RDEPEND).
(In reply to comment #0) > irtual/pam in RDEPEND Sorry for that remark - just after posting I realized that I missed the ${DEPEND} in the beginning of RDPEPEND. However, my main request of making pam optional remains...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 267918 ***