> On 2 Jan 2022, at 00:03, Scott Ellis <sco...@warped.com> wrote: > > Your `ipv6` USE flag hits home - I don't use IPv6, nor do I want to have IPv6 > support built into things (just another potential "thing" that I have to > secure, or errors/warnings I need to suppress since I run an IPv6-less > kernel). > > If there needs to be a path to culling USE flags, perhaps looking to which > flags actually cause packages to pull in additional dependencies (vs solely > enable/disable a feature) would be a better place to start? >
Yep, that's a good idea, but please do see my other comments on IPv6. USE=ipv6 actually has some problematic properties aside from people wanting (or not wanting) IPv6. One reason being that it's often not even a supported configuration upstream, but there's others I mentioned too. Best, sam
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