On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do > > you have USE="-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. > > Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers "in > their infinite wisdom" had IPV6 "enabled by default on all reasonable > profiles". Watching Firefox and mplayer spinning their wheels for 45 > seconds at a time till IPV6 lookups timed out was not fun.
I'd rather have that that an unusable shell. As was noted elsewhere this weekend, even if a USE flag is set but renamed, -* screws it up. BTW that delay was typically caused by buggy/obsolete router firmware failing to handled IPv6 requests, but should not be an issue on a fully non-IPv6 system as it needs a kernel with IPv6 enabled to make any difference. Still, it was not a good move, but I don't agree that risking further breakage is the best response to one less than optimal decision by the devs. -- Neil Bothwick I typed Format SER: and accidentally killed a telephone operator!
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