category for VPN softwares?

[Adam Weinberger]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 6:24 AM Diane Bruce <db at db.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:13:58AM -0600, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 3:37 AM Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 10:58, Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Am 02.04.19 um 07:42 schrieb Koichiro Iwao:
> > > > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 06:41:51AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > > > >> Create a real category vpn and move everything to it ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Sounds better! Gentoo has net-vpn category. Just FYI, Gentoo also have
> > > > > net-dialup category. PPP/PPPoE/L2TP softwares are put under net-dialup
> > > > > but I feel that classification is too fine. At least creating vpn or
> > > > > net-vpn souds good.
> > > >
> > > > How about a new "real" category vpn
> > >
> > >
> > > I am not sure if it should be vpn or net-vpn. I feel net-vpn is
> > > more suitable.
> > >
> > >
> > > > and preserving the current categories
> > > > of the ports as their additional categories (assuming that they are in net
> > > > vs. security for a reason).
> > > >
> > >
> > > I like the idea.
> >
> > Creating new categories is absolutely doable! However, we have a
> > pretty high bar for justifying it. There's no magic number, but our
> > (portmgr's) precedent is that the new category must, at the time of
> > creation, be as full as other categories like it.
> >
> > The most important thing in the new category proposal is a
> > comprehensive list of ports that will be moved to it. Put that into a
> > review or a PR and we can move forward. Fair warning though, if it's
> > only about a dozen ports, it most likely will not be approved.
> >
> > My approach here is that new categories should be virtual unless the
> > evidence for hard category is incontrovertible.
>
> It's far easier making a virtual category and easier to count ports.
> e.g. https://www.freshports.org/hamradio
>
> We have 101 hamradio related ports with more coming...
> korean has 43,portuguese has 15,russian has 42 although languages are a
> special case palm has 15 ports but whatever. ;)
>
> I'd be surprised if there weren't more vpn ports than 101 so why not
> go with a virtual ports category to start with?

Hi Diane,

That's a great approach to it! AFAIK we haven't explicitly used
virtual categories as a staging ground for hard categories, but that
seems like a really pragmatic approach; no matter the outcome, the
ports tree comes out ahead.

# Adam


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