Is IPV6 option still necessary?

[Lars Liedtke]

Am 10.10.19 um 17:17 schrieb LuKreme:
> On Oct 9, 2019, at 00:15, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I agree I don't see the reason why we should keep that ipv6 option. When off
>> this option does not bring much value to the users as the code for apps to
>> support ipv6 mostly reside in the libc. Actually that was my intent in 2012 to
>> first turn it on by default everywhere and then drop the option entirely.
> My isp does not support ipv6, so my services are not set to use it. I did have to specifically disable it in configuration for something, I forget what, but I have never felt the need to disable it in builds.
>
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?

Best regards

Lars

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