From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7yyk-0005oS-FE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:14:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 457A4E0C1A; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:14:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2479E0C1A for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.159] ([59.154.26.81]) (authenticated sender johnmoe) by mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id nAAMDvPr000473 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:13:59 +1100 Message-ID: <4AF9E5A4.3000000@optusnet.com.au> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:13:56 +1000 From: "John H. Moe" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091026) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world References: <445a8b100911100631h326a2ff6o46c00dff78f9f34@mail.gmail.com> <200911101706.44057.wonko@wonkology.org> <4AF9AD89.1060601@gmail.com> <200911102239.24745.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20091110204917.66c45671@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4AF9D665.5040908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AF9D665.5040908@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4dbf449b-0753-4788-9dea-38fbaecb3ae6 X-Archives-Hash: f5401a23b4b95f562c09bcbd17d34b17 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