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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Subject: bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 16:28:25 +0100
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

> Hmm, would it make sense to deprecate the "netcat" package then--with a hint on
> how to get the functionality (by installing nmap)?

There is no shortage of netcats in Guix.

In addition to 'ncat', there is 'netcat-openbsd', and LibreSSL also
includes a 'nc' executable; all of which support IPv6 to my knowledge.

I don't have an opinion on favoring one over the other.  But it would be
good to deprecate the unmaintained GNU netcat with something that works.

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