From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FDnfJ-0000gN-Jh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:04:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1RJ2KcL004234; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:02:20 GMT Received: from popmail.jettissystems.com (popmail.jettissystems.com [38.118.146.212]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1RIpOED001390 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:51:25 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.112] (c-24-5-45-136.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.5.45.136]) by popmail.jettissystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F3D56D4C6 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:51:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <44034A2C.8050506@badapple.net> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:51:24 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from? References: <200602270300.18842.bo.andresen@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200602270300.18842.bo.andresen@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e7940f96-9778-422d-ab5f-172efd56e631 X-Archives-Hash: a146cb8ef64ae86c690fda8855489ded Bo Andresen wrote: > I decided I wanted to remove the ipv6 use flag which I have had enabled in > make.conf for quite a while but never really been on a ipv6 network and don't > suspect I will in the near future. When upgrading firefox I noted it has that > use flag and decided I want to know what it actually does. Only, I cannot > find it anywhere in the ebuilds! So where does it come from and what > *exactly* does it do? Looks like you've already been answered. However when the ipv6 flag first hit the scene about two years ago it seemed to cause a number of weird problems so I disabled it on most machines. I'm not sure if that's the case today, but as always you're better off disabling something if you're not using it. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list