[HEADSUP] Re: Is IPV6 option still necessary?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:14:13PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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 ;)
> 
Done.

Now we can get back on the ipv6 option.

so if we want to proceed further in removing the option to build with or without
ipv6 for the ports side. Please speak up in reply to this email, if you are
building without ipv6, why are you doing so, what are the real benefit for it.
How bad it will impact you if we do remove that option?

Best regards,
Bapt
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