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From:
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: removal of www/surf
To:
Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Cc:
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org>, ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:05:16 +0100

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Le Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 08:36:49AM +0100, Theo Buehler a écrit :
> 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.

ok too, there's www/vimb for similar needs, and this one is maintained
upstream (and recently switched to gtk+4).