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> On 2 Jan 2022, at 00:03, Scott Ellis <scotte@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Your `ipv6` USE flag hits home - I don't use IPv6, nor do I want to have IPv6 support built into things (just another potential "thing" that I have to secure, or errors/warnings I need to suppress since I run an IPv6-less kernel). |
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> If there needs to be a path to culling USE flags, perhaps looking to which flags actually cause packages to pull in additional dependencies (vs solely enable/disable a feature) would be a better place to start? |
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Yep, that's a good idea, but please do see my other comments on IPv6. USE=ipv6 actually has some problematic properties |
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aside from people wanting (or not wanting) IPv6. |
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One reason being that it's often not even a supported configuration upstream, but there's others I mentioned too. |
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Best, |
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sam |
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