On 08/22/2014 10:36 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As I updated my system today, I noticed that 'sys-fs/lvm2' got updated
>> amongst other packages as well.
>>
>> I don't use LVM on my system.
>>
>> If I understand it correctly, 'sys-fs/lvm2' is a required dependency for
>> 'sys-fs/udisks/udisks-1.0.5-r1':
>>
>> equery d sys-fs/lvm2
>>  * These packages depend on sys-fs/lvm2:
>> sys-block/parted-3.1-r1 (device-mapper ? >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.45)
>> sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 (device-mapper ? >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.45)
>> sys-fs/udisks-1.0.5-r1 (>=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.66)
>> sys-fs/udisks-2.1.3 (cryptsetup ? sys-fs/lvm2[udev(+)])
>>
>> equery -q u sys-block/parted | grep device-mapper
>> -device-mapper
>>
>> equery -q u sys-boot/grub | grep device-mapper
>> -device-mapper
>>
>> equery -q u '=sys-fs/udisks-1.0.5-r1'
>> -debug
>> +nls
>> -remote-access
>>
>> $ equery -q u '=sys-fs/udisks-2.1.3' | grep cryptsetup
>> -cryptsetup
>>
>> /usr/portage/sys-fs/udisks/udisks-1.0.5-r1.ebuild:17,24
>> COMMON_DEPEND=">=dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.100
>> <snip>
>>     >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.66
>>
>> What are my options, if I were to remove 'sys-fs/lvm2' altogether?
> Remove sys-fs/udisks:0, which depends unconditionally on LVM2; also,
> it's on life support, AFAIR. sys-fs/udisks:2 is actively maintained
> and it depends only conditionally on LVM2.
>
>> What would you recommend doing about it?
> What does depend on sys-fs/udisks? What's the output from "equery d
> sys-fs/udisks"? Most applications switched to udisks-2, but some are
> still stuck with udisks-1 (XMBC, now Kodi, comes to mind).
>
> If an application that you absolutely need requires sys-fs/udisks:0,
> then you will need LVM2 also.
>
> Regards.

Looks like I've got a couple of apps that do require udisks-1 to run:
equery d sys-fs/udisks
 * These packages depend on sys-fs/udisks:
gnome-base/gvfs-1.20.2 (udisks ? >=sys-fs/udisks-1.97:2)
xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-1.3.0 (udisks ? sys-fs/udisks:0)

So I'm going to have to keep lvm2 then.

Thanks.


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