It will be a neat experiment, but I think most software will break and will remain broken indefinitely and then people will turn to LLMs to try to automate fixing all of it and that will turn into a mess just due to the sheer amount of changes required with little scrutiny.

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gear54rus 2 days ago | parent [-]

Perhaps it's time to submit patches that allow building it without IPv6 instead. Countless hours of configuration meddling will be saved.

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		Not sure if you're taking the piss or just missed it but allowing build with either protocol alone is one of the genuine ideas in this joke: > Yeah. The date notwithstanding, I do actually think we should do most of this for real. > Maybe we don't get away with the actual deprecation and the warnings on use just yet, and maybe we won't even get away with calling the config option CONFIG_LEGACY_IP, although I would genuinely like to see us moving consistently towards saying "Legacy IP" instead of "IPv4" everywhere. > But we should clean up the separation of CONFIG_INET and CONFIG_IPV[64] and make it possible to build with either protocol alone.
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