On 9/5/23 00:52, Michael Tokarev wrote:
04.09.2023 23:23, gene heskett wrote:
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Ah contraire, Eduardo. My location since 1984 is in the middle
northern area of WV, USA, And I am a minimum of 150 kilometers from
the nearest ipv6 enabled network connection. I'm not even sure my
cable modem, furnished by Shentel about 7 to 10 years ago, even can be
configured to handle ipv6. Not my choice, except where I live, place
is free & clear & has been for 24 years now, good neighbors in a small
county seat town. Retired for 21 years, no reason to move unless I
leave in a box.
By not accommodating the ipv6-less yet masses with a too bad, so sad
attitude is unbecoming. You may have ipv6 at your router input, but
there are millions not so lucky. You apparently have the power to fix
it, please do so.
This is apples and oranges. Lack of IPv6 conectivity might be quite
common still, I dunno. But lack of IPv6 *support* in the system
is very uncommon. For many years v6 worked to co-exists with v4 nicely,
and if there's no v6 connectivity, to fall back to v4
transparently.
I have yet to do an install since wheezy that did NOT require my manual
intervention to make ipv4 work. So in that respect, the installers have
failed miserably.
This Bookworm was by surprise, because a buster update did something to
my user pw, locking me totally out, so I had no chance the read the
installer notes, and the only recovery was taking my optical drive to
one of the milling machines in the garage, going online and downloading
the net-install iso and writing it to a dvd just to install bookworm on
this machine. And several months later, no one can tell me why an app
that needs access to my raid10 /home partition, takes from 30 secs up to
5 minutes after the mouse click, to open a file requestor accessing this
raid10 /home. Why? What difference is there between the file access in
buster, and the file access in bookworm? I've even forced a fsck on it
using bookworms tools. No clues.
It just works (but I must admit, this works less and less
good, since fallback code paths are tested less and less
often). If you disable something on your own system which is commonly
used (v6 support), it is your task to deal with the
consequences. Maintainers can help in some cases or can make this
easier, but this is definitely not a priority, esp. once a
trivial work-around exists (to configure a package to use v4-only).
/mjt
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