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From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org>
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Subject: Re: Is IPV6 option still necessary?
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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:05:49 +0200
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Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> writes:

> On October 10, 2012 IPV6 option of all ports was enabled by
> default. Commit message said "We are in 2012, it is time to activate
> IPV6 options by default everywhere".
>
> And now we are in 2019. IPv6 is more widely used than 2012. So I
> wonder if IPV6 option is still necessary.

ipv6 in CATEGORIES is also of dubious value nowadays. For one,
www/firefox has "ipv6" while www/chromium does not.