Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> >> >>> You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and >>> software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it >>> >>> >> It's also used by cryptsetup. >> >> >> >> > > Yup, I'm not sure if I am using that or not. I don't think so but I > don't want to remove it without making sure. Be my luck it will blow up > or something. lol This is what equery returns tho: > > sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 (kernel_linux & crypt? >=sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5) > sys-apps/pmount-0.9.20 (crypt? >=sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5) > > Don't get me started on hal. Is this a USE flag thing? I need to check > on this more. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > That's pretty much what I ended up doing: emerge --unmerge device-mapper && emerge -aDNuv world. Get rid of it, and let Portage tell me if I need it or not. :-) Seems to be working still...
John Moe
