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Tbe time and effort is minimal, one line in package.use. Profiles have nothing to with it, the flag is turned on in the ebuild. It's not a server vs. desktop issue either. |
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On 15 September 2017 22:43:15 BST, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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>On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: |
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>> Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: |
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>> > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? |
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>> > OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only |
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>> > patronising garbage, namely "A suite of tools for thin provisioning |
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>on |
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>> > Linux" - well, duh! Who write's this stuff? |
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>> > So, WTF is thin provisioning? |
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>> I'm tempted to ask whether google is down or something, but I'm tired |
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>and |
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>> waiting for 7z to finish so here you go anyway: |
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>For me, google is permanently down. |
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_provisioning |
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>Yes, I've read it, thanks. My question above was somewhat rhetorical. |
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>> I would say you probably don't need to care about it. |
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>I do. I need to spend time and effort removing it. It sounds like |
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>something only useful in servers, yet I have a desktop profile |
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>installed. |
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>There's something not quite right, here. |
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>> HTH |
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>> Marc Joliet |
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>> "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who |
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>know we |
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>> don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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