net-p2p/mldonkey-3.1.7-r1 depends on net-analyzer/netcat while app-emulation/libvirt depends on net-analyzer/openbsd-netcat. I have both installed on my system but either net-analyzer/netcat or net-analyzer/openbsd-netcat can be installed on my system. Is there a solution for this problem? Maybe another candidate for a virtual package? Or can net-p2p/mldonkey also depend on net-analyzer/openbsd-netcat? Reproducible: Always
Note that libvirt genuinely needs that netcat, not any.
I'm not sure if it's a good candidate for a virtual as both implementations are not 100% compatible. It was worse before when there were more netcat implementations that were totally incompatible, but it seems it got a bit better recently after some other implementations died. I think the only reason why net-analyzer/netcat and net-analyzer/openbsd-netcat can't be installed together is because they install their binary to the same path, so that conflict could be easily resolved if they used different paths. Maybe it could be a good candidate for an eselect instead? So you can have different netcat flavours installed and eselect will choose what's the default one /usr/bin/nc points to? Anyway, I made net-p2p/mldonkey depend on net-analyzer/netcat because that's the original netcat and it's the one with the most permissive license, but I just tested OpenBSD's one and it seems it will also work for the purpose it's used with mldonkey. I will push a new commit making net-p2p/mldonkey depend on any of both implementations. Note also that netcat is only required by net-p2p/mldonkey for the init script to send commands to the telnet interface with HTTP as a failback. Maybe that dependency could be made optional with some USE flag?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b578d63574a9970585b203ff7436fa55e0eed381 commit b578d63574a9970585b203ff7436fa55e0eed381 Author: Jesus P Rey (Chuso) <gentoo@chuso.net> AuthorDate: 2021-03-29 20:37:26 +0000 Commit: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-04-10 07:21:29 +0000 net-p2p/mldonkey: Add net-analyzer/openbsd-netcat as an alternative ...to net-analyzer/netcat. Signed-off-by: Jesus P Rey <gentoo@chuso.net> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/775971 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/20188 Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org> net-p2p/mldonkey/mldonkey-3.1.7-r1.ebuild | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
