Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box at all. A
>> little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin-
>> provisioning. Once I'd added -thin to my USE flags and recompiled lvm2 I could
>> get rid of ruby altogether.
>>
>> This won't suit everybody, I know, but maybe it's worth considering.
>
> What exactly does this do -- is it for a thin client or something?

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LVM#Thin_provisioning