On 6/25/2013 18:31, Walter Dnes wrote: > 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. >
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