Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

[Marc Joliet]

Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 19:56:54 CEST schrieb Andrew Lowe:
> Hi all,
> 	I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of
> Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a
> thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have anything thin and
> I don't provision anything so why I ask?
>
> 	From what I've been able to understand, it's something to do with
> Device Mapper, snapshots and "many virtual devices to be stored on the
> same data volume". This is all just jibberish to me and I have no idea
> as to why this has suddenly appeared in my world update. I haven't asked
> for it. I don't use any of the "more advanced" thingies such as lvm2 etc
> so does anyone have any idea as to why I've now go this to install?
>
> 	Back to Ruby killing now,
> 		Andrew

Based on what I've researched for the other sub-thread, since you don't 
actually use LVM, then -- unless you set the wrong USE flags -- you probably 
have udisks:0 installed (it has an unconditional dependency on lvm2).  Use 
"emerge --depclean -pv lvm2" to find out for sure.

If it is udisks:0, then AFAICT you can get rid of it with appropriate USE flag 
settings ("equery depends" is your friend here).

HTH
-- 
Marc Joliet
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