On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:36:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > 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)
Aha! So the choice is between an unsupported configuration or installing a handful of binaries that you will never use. Unless space was an issue, there's about 6NB difference, I'd go with the latter, although UNSUPPORTED != DOESNOTWORK -- Neil Bothwick I've got a Mickey Mouse PC with a Goofy operating system.
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