GNU screen can be built with the optional --enable-telnet flag that enables a builtin telnet client that could be used with 'screen //telnet hostname portnum'. I would like to have this setting available, maybe optionally with a USE flag. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 52107 [details, diff] screen-4.0.2-r1.ebuild.diff The attached patch enables the //telnet stuff. This is unconditionally (no USE flags involved), otherwise we also have to patch the documentation. If we don't do so, we have an documentation bug (man screen).
Added to app-misc/screen-4.0.2-r3