Neil Bothwick wrote:
It seems everyone is getting wound up about nothing here. device-mapper
is used for LVM, RAID, dm-crypt and maybe others. No one needs to
uninstall anything. One file in the whole of the device-mapper package is
an init script for baselayout 2 only. When run under baselayout 1 it does
nothing but output a "Don't run me" warning. You should not uninstall any
package, remove any file, pass Go or collect $200, just remove the script
from the boot runlevel.
The ebuild does not add the script to the runlevel, so the OP must have
read the elog output about adding it for baselayout 2, misunderstood (or
decided it would be a good idea to add it anyway) and added it to the
boot runlevel. This was a mistake and the solution is simply to reverse
this action by removing it from the runlevel. The has been a lot of
speculation, confusion and misinformation in this thread when all that is
needed it to undo one action.
Yes Alan, I also know what the ebuild does :)
I may have misunderstood part of the problem myself and been unclear in
what I was posting here. I was talking about removing the package not
removing it from the run level. It seemed to me that removing the
package may not be a good idea while removing it from a run level may
not be to bad. At worst the OP may have to boot a CD or something to
add it back.
Some of the misunderstanding may be on my part. I have broke things by
removing a package before and it is better to be safe than sorry.
Sometimes I ask before removing things myself just to be sure.
Dale
:-) :-)
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