Re: IPv6 in Debian
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:41:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Can we have a "enable IPV6 yes/no" question in the installer? That fixes all
> problems in one go. Then tweak the system's defaults for the answer.
Sure. While we're at it, can we also have a question "enable UTF-8"? Oh,
and perhaps "enable laptop support" might be nice as well, as could be
"enable udev" -- my personal pet peeve.
Sorry for the sarcasm, but while this type of thing might work, it just
doesn't scale; and if we go ahead adding such a question to the
installer, I'll bet Lars' tattoo on the fact that other people will come
ahead and ask for their pet peeve to be configurable at install time.
Besides, just disabling ipv6 is a very blunt way to fix stuff. If
loading the ipv6 module causes problems in some cases, then these are
bugs; we should aim to fix those bugs, and that aim should be part of
the release goals, rather than having the idea that just dropping ipv6
entirely if there *might* be problems is a great way to work around
issuees.
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