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