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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911102239.24745.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF9AD89.1060601@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 20:14:33 Dale wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >   
> 
> I'm not even sure I need device-mapper.  I may just uninstall all the
> stuff and reboot.  I can always chroot in and fix it.  If it runs fine
> then I can see what pulled it in and if I can get rid of that as well. 
> 

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

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-10 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-10 14:31 [gentoo-user] Problem with update world Massimiliano Ziccardi
2009-11-10 14:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-10 14:44   ` Massimiliano Ziccardi
2009-11-10 14:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Massimiliano Ziccardi
2009-11-10 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-11-10 15:11   ` Alex Schuster
2009-11-10 15:30     ` Dale
2009-11-10 16:06       ` Alex Schuster
2009-11-10 18:14         ` Dale
2009-11-10 20:39           ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-11-10 20:49             ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-10 21:08               ` Dale
2009-11-10 22:09                 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-10 23:04                   ` Dale
2009-11-10 22:13                 ` John H. Moe
2009-11-10 16:55       ` Alan McKinnon

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