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On Monday, 24 June 2019 08:46:55 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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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 issue, |
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> there's about 6NB difference, I'd go with the latter, although |
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> UNSUPPORTED != DOESNOTWORK |
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Yes, I've done the same on two boxes that have no need of lvm. It does seem |
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wasteful though. |
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I forget the detail now, but a recent-ish version of sys-fs/cryptsetup found |
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it needed a hard dependency on some of the code in lvm2. It seems to me that |
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we have here an opportunity for redesign of certain packages. ("We" the |
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community, that is.) |
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On this box, which does need lvm for RAID-1 on two SSDs: |
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$ equery d lvm2 |
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* These packages depend on lvm2: |
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app-emulation/virtualbox-6.0.8 (lvm ? sys-fs/lvm2) |
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net-fs/nfs-utils-2.4.1 (nfsv41 ? sys-fs/lvm2) |
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sys-block/gparted-0.33.0 (dmraid ? >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.45) |
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sys-block/parted-3.2_p25 (device-mapper ? >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.45) |
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sys-fs/cryptsetup-2.1.0 (sys-fs/lvm2[static-libs(+)]) |
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(sys-fs/lvm2) |
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sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.45.2 (cron ? sys-fs/lvm2[-device-mapper-only(-)]) |
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sys-fs/udisks-2.8.3 (lvm ? sys-fs/lvm2) |
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sys-libs/libblockdev-2.22 (device-mapper ? sys-fs/lvm2) |
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(dmraid ? sys-fs/lvm2) |
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(lvm ? sys-fs/lvm2) |
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Other than sys-fs/cryptsetup, those are all conditional dependencies. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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