Re: [gentoo-dev] suggestion: virtual/telnet

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@gentoo.org>]

Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk> writes:

> On Sunday 28 December 2003 03:34, Jason Wever wrote:
>> I don't believe our intention or goal is to proactively protect the user
>> from their own possible stupidity.  Telnet is still rather viable for
>> things (think terminal servers) and has many applications where security
>> may not be a concern.

> Mostly, as an administrator/power user, telnet is an absolute must for testing 
> services.

Although people often tend to use and think of telnet as being
plain-text, bare TCP, it really is a protocol, and so it would probably
be best to use the far-more-useful-for-that-purpose netcat program
(net-analyzer/netcat).

> The block-telnet with a virtual/telnet is a good idea. A simple 1 line reason 
> for the block printed when portage shows the block would make things even 
> better.
> Yes, it's work for a dev, but if it saves a multitude of questions later isn't 
> it worth the effort now?

Adding a block-telnet package to the system class seems like an
excessive amount of trouble to inconvenience users excessively.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

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