Joshua Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> :-) :-) >> > > Well, if you're not using encrypted partitions, you're not using > cryptsetup. Hal's (and by the looks of it, pmount's) use of the crypt > use flag pulls in cryptsetup, and in turn, all its dependencies. If > you're not using cryptsetup, just put sys-apps/hal -crypt into your > package.use list, and if you use pmount as well, the equivalent for > it. That should drop any dependency on cryptsetup, and if cryptsetup's > the only thing pulling in lvm2 (and previously device-mapper), that'll > no longer be depended on either. > >
I guess the USE flag was in the profile or something so I disabled it in make.conf. Since I am also trying to get KDE 4 to work, I also switched from sqlite to mysql while I was at it. It seems sqlite is not exactly what KDE 4 needs. Thanks much. Dale :-) :-)
