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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:11:00
Message-Id: 52867199.7060801@libertytrek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20 by Daniel Pielmeier
1 On 2013-11-15 5:56 AM, Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o> wrote:
2 > 2013/11/15 Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com
3 > <mailto:adamcarter3@×××××.com>>
4 > >
5 > > Not an answer to your question, but yesterday ruby got pulled in by
6 > an update to thin-provisioning-tools, which was required by lvm2.
7 > >
8 >
9 > It looks like ruby is only required for the tests of
10 > sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools [1].
11 >
12 > The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you
13 > update to this version and don't use FEATURES="test" it should not pull
14 > in ruby anymore.
15 >
16 > [1]
17 > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools/ChangeLog?r1=1.26&r2=1.27
18
19 Ok, so... is there or is there not a way to prevent ruby from being
20 installed?
21
22 I've tried adding -ruby and -test to package.mask for
23 thin-provisioning-tools, and even tried adding them to USE= in
24 make.conf, to no avail...

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Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20 Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com>