David Lamparter <[email protected]> writes:

> Building with IPv6 disabled tends to break rather often and sprinkles
> ugly #ifdefs around the code.  All that only to support systems where
> the C library doesn't have IPv6 capability.
>
> The year now being 2015, if this is a problem the thing to fix is the C
> library.
>
> The implication of this patch is that future patches need not care about
> HAVE_IPV6 = 0 and may remove ifdefs gratuitously.  This patch doesn't
> remove these ifdefs to not create unneccessary churn.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <[email protected]>

That is an interesting proposal, but I think this one needs a bit more
thought.

I suppose this is different from choosing to build only the v4 protocol
daemons.   pkgsrc does have an inet6 option (on by default of course) to
cause packages not to do v6.

I will ask the netbsd folks; netbsd of course has had v6 for a really
long time, more than 15 years, but some of them may have some useful
opinions.

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