Dale writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > I just unmerged device-mapper and updated lvm2 right after that. So
> > in case of a crash or something during a longer world update I still
> > have an intact system. I'm not sure if it would boot with the old
> > lvm2 and without device-mapper, probably yes, but I did not want to
> > take any risk.
> >
> > Um, shouldn't the new portage have dealt auto-magically with this
> > blocker?
> Here's something more interesting, I don't need or use lvm.
You do, when you need the device-mapper features. They have been moved
into the lvm2 package.
> I was
> trying to track it down with equery but I was getting drunk going in
> circles.
>
> I also assume that is why portage can't figure out a way to handle
> this. It got drunk too. After a while a drunk just falls down. lol
>
> Thought about using the -et options with emerge to figure this out.
I'd just try to emerge lvm2 and see what happens. It's not a big package.
Man, I use LVM on all of my systems, I really like it.
Wonko
