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? What would you recommend doing about it? Thanks.