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On Sunday, 15 March 2020 03:15:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Dale wrote |
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> > When doing upgrades, I agree it is always wise to look at all USE flag |
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> > changes. Having USE flags is a Gentoo feature but if not monitored |
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> > correctly, it can be a curse as well. It can cause havoc and makes |
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> > things not work correctly or add features one doesn't want. |
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> I learned this "the hard way" when the Gentoo devs "in their infinite |
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> wisdom" made "+ipv6" the default. Web browsers and wget, etc, would |
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> spin their wheels for 45 seconds on IPV6 lookups, before failing over |
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> to IPV4. I don't recall a news item. |
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Something else was probably amiss in your set up? The only minor delay I |
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noticed was during boot up, when dhcpcd started looking for a DHCPv6 server. |
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However, just like IPv4 this process was backgrounded and therefore the delay |
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was not significant, or even readily observable. In IPv4 only networks, no |
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IPv6 DNS resolver was available and consequently there was no searching or |
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delay on my PCs for IPv6 addresses. |
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Incidentally, I observed a Windows 7 PC falling over itself when it was booted |
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in a dual stack network with its IPv6 disabled. |
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