On Monday, 24 June 2019 01:12:07 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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.
use.local.desc:sys-fs/lvm2:device-mapper-only - Build only device-mapper and not the rest of LVM2 (UNSUPPORTED) -- Regards, Peter.
