On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:48:12AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote > On Tue, June 18, 2013 17:00, Joseph wrote: > > Every time I compile a package I get a message: > > > > sendmail: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address support: > > Address family not supported by protocol > > > > What is it looking for? > > Do you have IPV6 enabled in your kernel and for the network interfaces? > Simple and quick way to check, do you see IPV6-addresses when you type > "ifconfig -a" in a console? > > I get this warning for all services that have IPV6 support on systems that > don't have IPV6 enabled.
A few years ago the developers, "in their infinite wisdom", decided to enable the ipv6 USE flag by default. I found out "the hard way", when internet-enabled apps like Firefox sat there, spinning their wheels for a minute, before timing out the IPV6 lookup and falling back to IPV4. Since then, I have always done a --pretend update run and check the output, before doing the real update. And I've switched to beginning my USE variable with "-*". There is the option of setting USE="-ipv6" the more timid users. I don't understand the point of defaulting to IPV6. The vast majority of Gentoo users probably still run IPV4-only. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
