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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:58:10 -0600
Subject: Re: Ports using SSL & ipv6 by default (was: Re:  ports/47257:
	[update port] irc/ezbounce)
From: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com>
To: Pete Fritchman <petef@absolutbsd.org>
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On 01/20/03 10:41, "Pete Fritchman" <petef@absolutbsd.org> wrote:

> ++ 20/01/03 17:10 +0100 - Simon 'corecode' Schubert:
> | how about defaulting to SSL? this is a generic question, not only
> | specific to this port. i'd vote for default-ssl and default-ipv6 because
> | both are well supported in the base system.
> | porters, portmgr, comments?
> 
> I like it, I don't see why not (since, like you said, SSL and ipv6 are
> both in the base system).  If people don't want them, they can always
> just add the appropriate WITHOUT_* knobs to make.conf.

Unfortunately, you're assuming that all ports honor WITHOUT_SSL and
WITHOUT_IPV6.  They don't :(  Looking at a pretty big tree-sweep to fix it,
as well.

Defaulting SSL on I can understand, but not IPv6 -- there's lots and lots of
IPv4-only machines out there, which have no intention of using IPv6 anytime
soon.

-aDe


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