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On Sunday, 31 May 2020 00:19:21 BST Michael wrote: |
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> Admittedly, like you I have also installed LVM which I don't want/need on |
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> its own. It is pulled in by sys-fs/cryptsetup, needed by pmount, which I |
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> use and may want to use with encrypted filesystems in the future. I'm not |
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> sure if ext4 fs encryption is mature enough presently and what it requires. |
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> A project for a rainy day. |
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Cryptsetup is required by libblockdev here, and udisks in turn. Some time last |
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year the blockdev devs found they could no longer do without a hard dependency |
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on cryptsetup. I didn't dig into the detail; perhaps it was a fight like what |
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Dale describes. We just have to accept it now, anyway. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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