[Buildroot] Telnet client (inetutils)

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Károly Kasza,

On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:04:09 +0100, Károly Kasza wrote:

> I think since commit
> http://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=560fe85bf7fb81956e80848c8bb28d7a6d00a2a2
> there is no
> telnet client in Buildroot if the user does not want to use Busybox (which
> is my case sometimes).
> Do you think adding the inetutils package, which provides a simple telnet,
> telnetd, ftp and ftpd and a few more utilities would
> be acceptable? It looks far more recent than netkit was (Jan. 2014 was the
> latest release).

It is certainly acceptable. Feel free to send a patch adding this
package.

Thanks!

Thomas
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