Re: www/opera on FreeBSD

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Frédéric Fauberteau wrote:
> Le 27/04/2020 à 15:11, Nikita Gillmann a écrit :
> > Frédéric Fauberteau transcribed 3.1K bytes:
> >> I tried to run www/opera on FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Isn't www/opera extremely dusty? I started working
> > on an update in wip/opera* but without much interest in Opera myself.
> 
> Yes sure. When I blew on the dust, I had my eyes full.
> But it is for a 15 year old machine with an old AMD Turion processor. It take hours (many hours) to build lang/rust + www/firefox. Unfortunately, one of both is often broken when I try to do (e.g. http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=54904)
> 
> > Or was www/opera generally functional on some Operating Systems recently
> When I look at the repositories, it seems like recent releases of Opera are only available for linux, mac and win. I think you could remove the conditional part of the Makefile depending on ${EMUL_OPSYS} == "freebsd". Now, I will have to test the linux binary compatibility on FreeBSD :)
> 
> Thanks for your contrib!

You might want to try www/netsurf as one of the lightest options.
If you're willing to sit through a build of webkit, www/vimb and
www/otter-browser are other options.