On Sunday, 23 June 2019 10:20:58 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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.
Yes, provided USE="-thin" is set, which is enabled by default. -- Regards, Mick
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