Is IPV6 option still necessary?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 9 10:14:15 UTC 2019


On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:05:49PM +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
> Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu at utahime.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> ipv6 in CATEGORIES is also of dubious value nowadays. For one,
> www/firefox has "ipv6" while www/chromium does not.

This one is even easier to fix ;)

Best regards,
Bapt
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