The manual page for screen indicates that a built-in telnet client can be enabled by enabling the compile-time option BUILTIN_TELNET. The ebuild should give a USE-flag mechanism for enabling this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: n/a Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Celeron (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.11 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb canna cdr cjk crypt cups directfb emacs encode esd fbcon fbdev foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg msn mule mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib"
that seems awfully unsafe, seeing as ssh is the new telnet
Created attachment 31663 [details] Ebuild with telnet use_enable This ebuild build the telnet support if the use flag telnet is set. Therefor, when this ebuild is commited, the use flag telnet should be added as local for app-misc/screen. But, I suggest you to use ssh, since telnet is quite insecure. But it may come in handy some times so I've written the ebuild. Hysteric
Are people actually using this? The bug report only says that it's mentioned in the docs, so unless there are people really using it (with a good reason) I'd be against this, we don't need unused USE flags.
nor do we need unsafe things
