2013/11/15 Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> > > Not an answer to your question, but yesterday ruby got pulled in by an update to thin-provisioning-tools, which was required by lvm2. >
It looks like ruby is only required for the tests of sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools [1]. The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you update to this version and don't use FEATURES="test" it should not pull in ruby anymore. [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools/ChangeLog?r1=1.26&r2=1.27 -- Regards Daniel Pielmeier