On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 9:58 AM orbea <or...@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. >