On Sunday, 31 May 2020 00:19:21 BST Michael wrote: --->8
> Admittedly, like you I have also installed LVM which I don't want/need on > its own. It is pulled in by sys-fs/cryptsetup, needed by pmount, which I > use and may want to use with encrypted filesystems in the future. I'm not > sure if ext4 fs encryption is mature enough presently and what it requires. > A project for a rainy day. Cryptsetup is required by libblockdev here, and udisks in turn. Some time last year the blockdev devs found they could no longer do without a hard dependency on cryptsetup. I didn't dig into the detail; perhaps it was a fight like what Dale describes. We just have to accept it now, anyway. -- Regards, Peter.
