[tor-bugs] #19450 [Core Tor/Tor]: Rip out --enable-bufferevents

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#19450: Rip out --enable-bufferevents
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     Reporter:  arma          |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium        |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.???
    Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal        |   Keywords:
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       Points:                |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:                |
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 Periodically we run across packagers that provide the bufferevents shotgun
 and aim it at the user's foot: first was gentoo that turned it on by
 default, and today was freebsd that gives you a tantalizing option to
 click without any hint about how you'll be missing a foot afterwards.

 I proposed in #18189 that we rip out the ability to set --enable-
 bufferevents, so we end the steady trickle of users who lose feet. We
 should totally do this.

 The next question then is: should we also remove all the code that will
 effectively become dead code then? That one I want Nick's opinion on.

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