Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:43:15 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > 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.
I use Duckduckgo, myself. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_provisioning > > Yes, I've read it, thanks. My question above was somewhat rhetorical. OK > > 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. As Alan and Neil already mentioned, it's set by default in the ebuild (i.e., "+thin" somewhere in IUSE, which you can also see in the output of eix). You'd have to ask the maintainer why that is, though. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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