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From: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>
To: Koichiro Iwao <meta@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: category for VPN softwares?
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Hi!

> some VPN softwares are in security category/directory. OTOH, some VPN
> softwares are in net category/directory. Which is correct & preferred?
> Incoherent categories are a little bit surprising and confusing for me.
> 
> I'd like to sort out categories of VPN softwares. Probably we have
> following options. What do you think? I'd appreciate any comments or
> suggestions.
> 
> 1. Incoherent categories are OK and leave it as-is
> 2. Move all VPN softwares to either of net or security
> 3. Create a new virtual category "vpn" and leave phys categories as-is
> 4. Create a new virtual category "vpn" and also sort out phys categories
> 5. Another option

Create a real category vpn and move everything to it ?

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