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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Should there be an app-alternatives/netcat?
From:       "Mitch D." <futurehypoon () gmail ! com>
Date:       2024-01-16 16:59:37
Message-ID: CAFp6V1joAQATAx4ZZ5JHUxebQdsmXmDvB3zKWhz+B7y2-1kU4g () mail ! gmail ! com
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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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