Comment 8 for bug 144200

I suppose some debconf question/warning and an /etc/default/evms could be an easy solution to this intended behaviour. A simple package install breaking booting by default sounds harmful.

A better solution might be to expand evms to have a look in /etc/fstab to figure out which devices it should stay away from and which it can "claim", a lot like how NetworkManager checks /etc/network/interfaces to see which network interfaces to control. This could be a suggestion for upstream, if there still is one..

Having learned not to install evms unless I'm going to use it, I no longer care deeply about this issue :)