>> Sure sounds like a religious argument to me.
>
>What's so religious about this? If I don't want to use the PAM library,
>I don't want my software to be linked against it.

"Religious" in this sense means, "Having nothing to do with reason".
(E.g., I have yet to see a coherent reason why having PAM in the OS
could ever harm you, unless you went out of your way to hose it up).

--Ken