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On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:46:55 +0100 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:36:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > > Which is why the USE flag exists, to avoid installing LVM. |
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> > > > But it's not supported. |
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> > > In what way. I've just tried emerging lvm2 with |
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> > > USE="device-mapper-only -thin" and it installed the device-mapper |
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> > > stiff but none of the lvm executables, which seems to be exactly |
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> > > what is wanted. |
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> > use.local.desc:sys-fs/lvm2:device-mapper-only - Build only |
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> > device-mapper and not the rest of LVM2 (UNSUPPORTED) |
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> Aha! |
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> So the choice is between an unsupported configuration or installing a |
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> handful of binaries that you will never use. Unless space was an |
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> issue, there's about 6NB difference, I'd go with the latter, although |
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> UNSUPPORTED != DOESNOTWORK |
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My guess is that 'unsupported' in this case means upstream won't bother |
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to make sure the partial installation will continue to work. If it |
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ever does break, I'd expect the Gentoo maintainers to force the flag |
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off. |
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