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, namely "A suite of tools for thin provisioning on > > Linux" - well, duh! Who write's this stuff? > > So, WTF is thin provisioning? > I'm tempted to ask whether google is down or something, but I'm tired and > waiting for 7z to finish so here you go anyway: For me, google is permanently down. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_provisioning Yes, I've read it, thanks. My question above was somewhat rhetorical. > I would say you probably don't need to care about it. I do. I need to spend time and effort removing it. It sounds like something only useful in servers, yet I have a desktop profile installed. There's something not quite right, here. > HTH > -- > Marc Joliet > -- > "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we > don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
