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On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do |
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> > you have USE="-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. |
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> Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers "in |
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> their infinite wisdom" had IPV6 "enabled by default on all reasonable |
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> profiles". Watching Firefox and mplayer spinning their wheels for 45 |
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> seconds at a time till IPV6 lookups timed out was not fun. |
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I'd rather have that that an unusable shell. As was noted elsewhere this |
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weekend, even if a USE flag is set but renamed, -* screws it up. |
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BTW that delay was typically caused by buggy/obsolete router firmware |
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failing to handled IPv6 requests, but should not be an issue on a fully |
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non-IPv6 system as it needs a kernel with IPv6 enabled to make any |
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difference. Still, it was not a good move, but I don't agree that risking |
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further breakage is the best response to one less than optimal decision |
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by the devs. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I typed Format SER: and accidentally killed a telephone operator! |
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