Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 04:26:42 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is IPV6 option still necessary? Message-ID: <5D9BAD92.4090909@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <20191007.151841.1094708479149685365.yasu@utahime.org> References: <20191007.151841.1094708479149685365.yasu@utahime.org>
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On 07.10.2019 13:18, Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote: > On October 10, 2012 IPV6 option of all ports was enabled by > default. Commit message said "We are in 2012, it is time to activate > IPV6 options by default everywhere". > > And now we are in 2019. IPv6 is more widely used than 2012. So I > wonder if IPV6 option is still necessary. > > If you use official packages then you always use IPv6-enabled > binaries. And even if you build packages by yourself you still use > IPv6-enabled ones unless you disable IPV6 option. So I think at most > only a few people uses IPv6-disabled packages. > > Are there anybody who still disables IPV6 option for some serious > reason such as working around IPv6-related problem? If there aren't > then I think it's time to remove IPV6 option from ports framework. Think about embedded systems designed for internal use mostly/only (limited or no global connectivity) with very constrained space for a code. Ability to reduce code bloat is good thing.
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