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 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? > > Back to Ruby killing now, > Andrew
Based on what I've researched for the other sub-thread, since you don't
actually use LVM, then -- unless you set the wrong USE flags -- you probably
have udisks:0 installed (it has an unconditional dependency on lvm2). Use
"emerge --depclean -pv lvm2" to find out for sure.
If it is udisks:0, then AFAICT you can get rid of it with appropriate USE flag
settings ("equery depends" is your friend here).
HTH
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