On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 23:35:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > 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. > > But it's not supported.
In what way. I've just tried emerging lvm2 with USE="device-mapper-only -thin" and it installed the device-mapper stiff but none of the lvm executables, which seems to be exactly what is wanted. -- Neil Bothwick If Yoda so strong in force is, why words in right order he cannot put?
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