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On Sat Jan 1, 2022 at 4:21 PM CST, Piotr Karbowski wrote: |
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> I'd like to focus on the 'reasonably want' here. |
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I find that words like "reasonable" are generally useless. The issue |
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is, it's completely subjective. Do you think the average |
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person would think that using Gentoo is reasonable for their home |
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computing? Is it resonable for grandma? I think it's reasonable for me. |
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> The thing is, it's 2022, and it does not make any sense to *not* support |
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> IPv6, even if one does not connect to any network with IPv6, there's no |
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> harm to just have it there. |
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This kind of logic goes down a slippery slope very quickly though. |
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"There's no harm to just have it there" kind of defeats the purpose of a |
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configurable operating system. |
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> Beside 'ipv6', there are other USE flags that I have on mind. 'pam' |
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> being another of them. |
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Well, I'm not sure about the pam one. The only USE flag that |
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consistently baffles me is 'X'. It really does not seem to have a well |
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defined definition, and it seems to do different things with different |
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packages. For the longest time, I had that flag globally disabled, but |
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used X and almost every package worked totally fine. |
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-- Blake |
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