* [gentoo-dev] Should there be an app-alternatives/netcat?
@ 2024-01-16 14:58 orbea
2024-01-16 17:01 ` Mitch D.
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From: orbea @ 2024-01-16 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gentoo-dev
Hi,
Looking in the ::gentoo repo I noticed there are 3 different /usr/bin/nc
options available, net-analyzer/netcat, net-analyzer/openbsd-netcat and
net-analyzer/nmap[symlink].
And packages that depend on net-analyzer/netcat must also explicitly
list all of the available options where net-analyzer/munin,
net-analyzer/netdata and xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin all missed
net-analyzer/nmap[symlink] while app-forensics/air only lists
net-analyzer/netcat.
Additionally there could be even more options available in overlays,
for example libressl provides an optional TLS-enabled nc(1) binary.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Should there be an app-alternatives/netcat?
2024-01-16 14:58 [gentoo-dev] Should there be an app-alternatives/netcat? orbea
@ 2024-01-16 17:01 ` Mitch D.
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From: Mitch D. @ 2024-01-16 17:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gentoo-dev
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 9:58 AM orbea <orbea@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Looking in the ::gentoo repo I noticed there are 3 different /usr/bin/nc
> options available, net-analyzer/netcat, net-analyzer/openbsd-netcat and
> net-analyzer/nmap[symlink].
If I recall correctly, the different implementations do not all have
the same features and command-line parameters. They are not fully
interchangeable. I don't know how similar the implementations need to
be for a hypothetical app-alternatives/netcat.
> And packages that depend on net-analyzer/netcat must also explicitly
> list all of the available options where net-analyzer/munin,
> net-analyzer/netdata and xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin all missed
> net-analyzer/nmap[symlink] while app-forensics/air only lists
> net-analyzer/netcat.
>
> Additionally there could be even more options available in overlays,
> for example libressl provides an optional TLS-enabled nc(1) binary.
>
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