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Hello!

It's the time of year again during which we traditionally discuss the
removal of the "ipv6" option. (I've checked my IRC logs since 2008 and
we always discussed this during autumn for some reason! :-) )

Recently, we got a patch
(https://galileo.mailstation.de/gerrit/#/c/298/) to disable the ipv6
option for NSPR.

I'm *not* in favour of that specific patch because it would mean we
would basically arbitrarily remove the ipv6 option from random
packages, not knowing what might break. Instead, I'd like us to just
drop the ipv6 option *completely*.

Personally, I've been running every single machine for the last 5
years or so with IPv6 enabled globally - nothing ever broke. And that
was independent of the actual existence of IPv6 connectivity (which I
didn't always have).

As for the argument that things might break if someone doesn't compile
IPv6 support into his kernel - things are likely to break if you don't
compile-in support for your CPU either. Just don't do that then.

We should, of course, add some instructions about that to our
documentation but that's something I'll gladly do.

Comments?

(Please speak up, too, if you're in favour of my proposal; I'm looking
at you, Heiko and Saleem! ;-) )

- -- 
Best regards, Wulf
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