Is IPV6 option still necessary?

LuKreme kremels at kreme.com
Fri Oct 11 13:09:22 UTC 2019


On Oct 11, 2019, at 06:44, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> 
> LuKreme wrote on 2019/10/11 00:23:
>> On Oct 10, 2019, at 10:01, Lars Liedtke <liedtke at punkt.de> wrote:
>>> Why not just make building in IPv6 support the default, and introduce a
>>> flag if someone really needs or wants to build without that support?

>> Because it adds to the load of testing. If you really need it, build from source.

> Building official packages with IPv6 is OK. Removing existing options from ports and saying "build from source" is ... stupid.

How many ports do you maintain?

Are you willing to test and patch ports for removing ipv6 on each new version?




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