Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 16/09/17 06:57, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 19:56:54 CEST schrieb Andrew Lowe: >> Hi all, >> I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of >> Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a >> thingy called

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-16 Thread Stroller
> On 16 Sep 2017, at 17:16, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:35:44 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> What really got up my nose, as mentioned above, was doing an emerge -s on >> thing-provisioning-tools and getting told it was "tools for thin >>

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:35:44 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > What really got up my nose, as mentioned above, was doing an emerge -s on > thing-provisioning-tools and getting told it was "tools for thin > provisioning". I raised a bug report about that once, against use.desc. There was a

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Alan. On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 00:15:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/09/2017 23:43, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > >> Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > >>> Yes, but do I want it to go away?

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 15 September 2017 23:30:07 BST Daniel Campbell wrote: > If you have app-portage/gentoolkit (I highly recommend it) you can run > `equery d sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools` to find what's pulling it > in. It's probably lvm2, which is expected if you use LVM for anything. > If you

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 19:56:54 CEST schrieb Andrew Lowe: > Hi all, > I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of > Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a > thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have anything thin

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:43:15 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > > > > > > OK, let's

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/15/2017 02:43 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: >>> Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > >>> OK, let's try emerge -s

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2017 23:43, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: >>> Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > >>> OK, let's try emerge -s

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
Tbe time and effort is minimal, one line in package.use. Profiles have nothing to with it, the flag is turned on in the ebuild. It's not a server vs. desktop issue either. On 15 September 2017 22:43:15 BST, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > > OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only > > patronising garbage,

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > > OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only > patronising garbage, namely "A suite of tools for thin provisioning on > Linux" - well,

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Neil. On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 21:47:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:56:54 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three > > versions of Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I > > noticed a thingy

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:56:54 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three > versions of Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I > noticed a thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have > anything thin and I don't