On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Wulf C. Krueger <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 another insignificant data point: I've been running my machines with ipv6 enabled as well without IPv6 availability for quite some time. > 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. > In reality this isnt that big of a deal. I specifically build IPv6 support as a module to allow me to run without IPv6 support randomly (for no good reason but to break packages). It doesnt seem to have caused any issues yet. > 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! ;-) ) > I am most absolutely in favour of dropping this option globally. > - -- > Best regards, Wulf > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlKomLwACgkQnuVXRcSi+5rKVgCgtjpDa9nD6mywBiUYw0lRJjrz > Hh8AoN9yXTSeKHERGt74OBcGKcHqgDaQ > =wxDt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Exherbo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev > -- Saleem Abdulrasool compnerd (at) compnerd (dot) org
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