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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:17:00 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Subject:   Re: Eliminating IPv6 (?)
Message-ID:  <94c95322-700e-422f-1358-19d577a8b15c@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <201906192332.x5JNWQxB020511@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201906192332.x5JNWQxB020511@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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20.06.2019 6:32, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>>> I've not run a userland without V6 in a long time once I started to have
>>> issues with some things.
>>
>> Can you give an example of such script in base system, please?
>>
>> If you have such script or binary not in our base, it's not our fault :-)
> 
> That is an extremly aragant position to take.  Your basically saying that
> only the base system scripts have to function correctly and that any
> script not part of the base system has no need to be supported.
> 
> Go tell this to the ports people... *sigh*

I'm saying that areas of responsibility should be denoted.
If there is some script in the world written with bad assumptions,
its author/maintainer is responsible in fixing it.

FreeBSD already provides sysctls kern.features.inet and kern.features.inet6 to make it easier for scripts.




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