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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:41:12 -0800 (PST)

> Having IPv6 remove all addresses when link goes down is fundamentally broken
> that is what the original problem being fixed. For users on servers or using
> Quagga this matters, how do you plan to fix that?

How about in a way that doesn't break stuff?

And it's been beyond proven that people give more of a crap
about disable_ipv6 than the thing you keep claiming is a big deal.

NOBODY other than you even noticed the issue or made a report about
it.

Yet we have people actively complaining about disable_ipv6 being
broken.

So you lose on two counts.  You can't fix things by breaking other
stuff, and your obscure stuff matters less than things people
actually notice being broken.