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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@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 00:29:50
Message-Id: 86f58014dd60ba71d5f5bae1e92d51fc1eb501d1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Rationalizing USE flags by narrowing the scope of them. by Piotr Karbowski
1 On Mon, 2022-01-03 at 21:29 +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
2 >
3 > Perhaps the 'pam' example was extreme, but ipv6, or threads as Sam
4 > shared, does not make sense to be togglable.
5 >
6
7 Many packages need their ipv6 code disabled if the kernel has no ipv6
8 support, and enabling ipv6 in the kernel is a pointless security risk
9 for pretty much anyone in the United States.

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