diff --git a/net-dialup/minicom/metadata.xml b/net-dialup/minicom/metadata.xml
index f5d48b82306b1..f68afd2b9d177 100644
--- a/net-dialup/minicom/metadata.xml
+++ b/net-dialup/minicom/metadata.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
-  <herd>net-dialup</herd>
+  <herd>embedded</herd>
   <longdescription lang="en">
     Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102
     terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.