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. -- Neil Bothwick Too many clicks spoil the browse.
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