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Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:43:15 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: |
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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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> > > |
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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 on |
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> > > Linux" - well, duh! Who write's this stuff? |
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> > > |
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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 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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I use Duckduckgo, myself. |
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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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OK |
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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 installed. |
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> There's something not quite right, here. |
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As Alan and Neil already mentioned, it's set by default in the ebuild (i.e., |
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"+thin" somewhere in IUSE, which you can also see in the output of eix). |
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You'd have to ask the maintainer why that is, though. |
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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 know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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