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From:
Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject:
Re: removal of www/surf
To:
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:36:49 +0100

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 08:32:08AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> www/surf is the only port left that depends on the unFLAVORed version of
> www/webkitgtk4 (which itself depends on unmaintained libsoup2, devel/libsoup).
> 
> www/webkitgtk4 is going away, as it uses libsoup2:
> https://webkitgtk.org/2025/10/07/webkitgtk-soup2-deprecation.html
> 
> Surf seems to be unmaintained and having a browser that uses such unmaintained
> does not fly.

Also, I don't think it qualifies as suckless anymore if we need to build
a monster like webkitgtk4 just for that thing. It sucks very much.

> Last release was 4 years ago: https://surf.suckless.org/
> 
> OK to remove it?

Yes please.