From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F5AC15838C for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F34FE2AEE; Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx0.riseup.net (mx0.riseup.net [198.252.153.6]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E862E2AE7 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fews02-sea.riseup.net (fews02-sea-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.112]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx0.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4TDsZW17BHz9vTw for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:58:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=riseup.net; s=squak; t=1705417091; bh=koQx7kveRHpcsNJhvNhrzIzkaHH+IqX9mfdau3Rle5w=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=l5sXhQqul6ZN1aXpnY/7dCHkjwp8nhk7DRE4d11OX/rHoPx9UmMKHeFY1N0sQVonF 7CDXTMMCEKAj2EuyLIVO97r6FzlL/XbHwUWzyD+jRao1quMfnWqQ8zvPkkzDf4iTED aTMe+oA9arVsgpm29/rItbU97dQdsFwho49yDdMU= X-Riseup-User-ID: 816AFDA49DFD55F243E94E7CC1B3F1A1F2BECCB797B09D7726B3D28D6D8E0BB3 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fews02-sea.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4TDsZV5pWLzFvD8 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 06:58:08 -0800 From: orbea To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Should there be an app-alternatives/netcat? Message-ID: <20240116065808.6abec7c3@Akita> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 300f3ace-2aa6-460f-9ecb-90582c09025b X-Archives-Hash: b16358c1f56b89ce035f400ffeca6b65 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.