[gentoo-dev] Should there be an app-alternatives/netcat?
From orbea@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 16 16:00:01 2024
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.