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 called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have > > anything thin and I don't provision anything so why I ask? > > > > From what I've been able to understand, it's something to do > > with Device Mapper, snapshots and "many virtual devices to be stored on > > the same data volume". This is all just jibberish to me and I have no > > idea as to why this has suddenly appeared in my world update. I haven't > > asked for it. I don't use any of the "more advanced" thingies such as > > lvm2 etc so does anyone have any idea as to why I've now go this to > > install? > If you add -t to emerge @world you will probably see that it is lvm2 that > pulls this in, specifically the thin USE flag, which is on by default. > Add ":sys-fs/lvm2 -thin" to /etc/portage/package.use and it will go away. 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, duh! Who write's this stuff? So, WTF is thin provisioning? > -- > Neil Bothwick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
