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From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rationalizing USE flags by narrowing the scope of them.
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 03:35:23
Message-Id: 297C5EBA-745F-42E0-9773-C8C32806C497@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rationalizing USE flags by narrowing the scope of them. by Michael Orlitzky
1 > On 4 Jan 2022, at 00:29, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Mon, 2022-01-03 at 21:29 +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
4 >>
5 >> Perhaps the 'pam' example was extreme, but ipv6, or threads as Sam
6 >> shared, does not make sense to be togglable.
7 >>
8 >
9 > Many packages need their ipv6 code disabled if the kernel has no ipv6
10 > support, and enabling ipv6 in the kernel is a pointless security risk
11 > for pretty much anyone in the United States.
12 >
13
14 Obviously for such cases, the flag should be kept. But that's not
15 the case for plenty of packages.
16
17 Best,
18 sam

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