Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" <klondike@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] ipv6 on by default for hardened profile
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:02:52
Message-Id: 4FEA56EA.4020402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] ipv6 on by default for hardened profile by Michael Orlitzky
1 El 26/06/12 07:43, Michael Orlitzky escribió:
2 > It's easy enough to set USE="-ipv6" manually of course, but the same
3 > argument works for USE="ipv6". So, I think the default should be what
4 > most people want; i.e. what the fewest people will have to override. Do
5 > most hardened machines use ipv6?
6 These here is a nice fallacy it is called Argumentum ad Populum and
7 doesn't stands. Why? Because these is about having an usable system.
8 If you disable ipv6 on the profiles users on ipv6 only systems can't
9 then use the stages since they need to fetch system to rebuild the
10 packages and for that they need ipv6. So, since from a functionality
11 point of view enabling it won't leave on an unusable system after
12 unpacking the stage to users of either ipv4 or dual stack systems the
13 USE will be on.
14
15 We are not shoving anything through people's throats anyway you can
16 always disable it and you probably will since you must be a really bad
17 hardened system administrator if you don't recheck
18 the default USE flags before proceeding with the installation.

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