Re: gdm not installing all files (garnome 2.14.2.1)

[Carson Gaspar <carson+garnome taltos org>]

--On Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:16 AM -0400 "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." 
<joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:

> A basic maxim of GARNOME is "do no harm".  The GARNOME build process
> should only install files into the GARNOME install tree.  The build
> process should never *automatically* install any file into a system
> directory.  That being said, we are left to deal with post-install
> issues like PAM files.
>
> The issue with PAM is that it does not support a search path environment
> variable like python or pkg-config. Using soft links one way to solve
> the problem.

You missed his point entirely. The pam files aren't being copied into 
$GARNOME. So you can create all the dangling symlinks in /etc/pam.d that 
you like, they won't work...

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Carson