/extra pam
 

Why /extra contains only source (and slackbuild) for package'pam' and not the prebuilt package?

I think because pam isn't integrated yet in slackware, although Vincent Batts got most of the things ready since some time (and seems he is now working to update them) see

http://connie.slackware.com/~vbatts/pam/

on that page you can read also:

Yes. To "integrate" pam, Pat must rebuild the entire distribution and put pam in slackware/a, but I do not ask that. I ask the package in /extra, as generated from current slackbuild without modification nor other integration, but as txz.

Other packages are available only as SlackBuild (google-chrome, flashplayer-plugin and java) but due license problems.

PAM as standalone package does not have nor license problems nor implementation problems (I think).



What meaning the stringpresent in the slackbuild?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO0ZjJm-FPk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Bishop

if you have the package installed, probably other stuff will link to it, and I don't think this is desiderable until there's full support available in the system (as you can see, many packages are involved).

I don't understand! Why that in slackbuild?

Slackware does not use PAM, so there is no reason to start shipping it in /extra. We would have to recompile a whole lot of other packages and add those to /extra as well, to make it worth while. That is not going to happen. All we needed was a single shared library from the PAM build.

As for your question about the Church Police, you can perhaps compare PAM to a dead bishop lying on the landing outside. It depends on what you've eaten just before. Please refer to http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/salvfuzz.htm

Eric

Thanx.

If I install the only library from google-chrome-pam-solibs and I link libpam.so in /usr/lib may be sufficient for "some" other non-official package?

For example:
in past, to install (and use succesfully) vmware, was sufficient to only create /etc/pam.d, without install the package!

Yes, if I want compile a package using --with-pam, I need at least the .h include files, but If I want only to use most software pre-built, may be sufficient? (for google-chrome the answer is YES :-))