Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
>
> sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2)
>
> How do you figure out what to do in situations like this?

Read the changelogs. For shadow it says that it takes over
the functionality of pam-login. So after upgrading shadow
there is no need to re-emerge pam-login anymore (but you
might want to run revdep-rebuild, just to be sure).