[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] nc: new virtual package providing "netcat" functionality

Carlos Santos casantos at datacom.ind.br
Wed Oct 4 12:58:38 UTC 2017


> From: "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> To: "Carlos Santos" <casantos at datacom.ind.br>
> Cc: buildroot at buildroot.org, "Maxime Hadjinlian" <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 6:20:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3] nc: new virtual package providing "netcat" functionality

> Hello Carlos,
> 
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 17:09:55 -0300 (BRT), Carlos Santos wrote:
> 
>> > Virtual packages are mainly useful when several variants of a given
>> > library provide the same API, but different implementations, and we
>> > have N consumers of this API. In such a case, a virtual package avoids
>> > having each consumer explicitly handle every possible provider of the
>> > API.
>> 
>> There are three packages able to provide the "nc" command (four, if
>> we count busybox). I want to allow the user to choose only one of them,
>> unambiguously.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I really don't think we want to go down this route.
---8<---

OK, I sent a smaller patch which simply adds an option to build/install
ncat.

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Carlos Santos (Casantos) - DATACOM, P&D
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