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On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 16:34:08 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> On 6/22/19 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > The indentation shows that is is a hard dependency of cryptsetup, |
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> > which is backed up by reading the ebuild. I expect that it needs the |
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> > device-maper functionality provided by lvm, in which case you can set |
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> > the device-mapper-only USE flag to avoid installing the full lvm |
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> > suite. |
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> Why isn't device-mapper it's own package‽ One which LVM depends on. |
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No idea, but I'd guess it's got something to do with not reinventing the |
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wheel. From a maintenance point of view, a USE flag would be less effort |
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than two packages. |
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> Multi-Path (as in dm-multipath) can easily be used without LVM. |
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Which is why the USE flag exists, to avoid installing LVM. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If I save time, when do I get it back? |
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