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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why does Udisks require Lvm2 ?
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 22:34:21
Message-Id: 39ce57e4-c78a-ce6c-2573-f6f373de42fb@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why does Udisks require Lvm2 ? by Neil Bothwick
1 On 6/22/19 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > The indentation shows that is is a hard dependency of cryptsetup, which
3 > is backed up by reading the ebuild. I expect that it needs the
4 > device-maper functionality provided by lvm, in which case you can set the
5 > device-mapper-only USE flag to avoid installing the full lvm suite.
6
7 Why isn't device-mapper it's own package‽ One which LVM depends on.
8
9 Multi-Path (as in dm-multipath) can easily be used without LVM.

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Re: [gentoo-user] why does Udisks require Lvm2 ? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>