once i'm done unifying firefox/firefox-esr/librewolf, i'm probably going 
to target tor-browser as well.

OpenBSD has like five different versions of the same port. It seems to 
me that all will be more maintainable overall if they all use the same 
setup, with each individual port only altering what it needs. It's the 
same concept behind www/mozilla, but for browsers, hence my addition (in 
the WIP patch) of www/mozilla-browser

I spoke of it before, and this WIP is exactly what I had in mind. It's 
building as we speak, and will probably even run fine. I'm testing 
librewolf first. Then I'll build and run firefox.

I need to more thoroughly audit and test everything before I'm happy for 
it to be merged, because this is a highly invasive change and as I write 
this, it represents about an hour of work.


Am 02.09.26 um 07:39 schrieb Leah Rowe:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Please note: the attached patch is NOT ready to merge yet.
>
> Just FYI I'm working on this patch at the moment. I'm gonna give it a 
> rest for a few days while working on other tasks; I also need to test 
> it more thoroughly before it's ready for review.
>
> See attached. What do you think?
>
> It unifies mozilla firefox and librewolf in OpenBSD, putting most 
> browser-specific config into a new module: www/mozilla-browser
>
> I do away with mozconfig entirely, in LibreWolf, and once again use 
> CONFIGURE_ARGS in ports. The logic is now in sync with FireFox.
>
> I added all of LibreWolf's hardening to the setup, so now FireFox has 
> a more hardened set of build options mirroring what is used in LibreWolf.
>
> I no longer patch mozconfig or policy in LibreWolf. I delete 
> mozconfig. The policy already disables AI like OpenBSD's one does, so 
> everything is still in sync; the only difference now is those settings 
> are no longer locked in LibreWolf.
>
> This is part of a general effort to simplify the maintenance of 
> LibreWolf, which necessarily meant integrating more tightly with 
> OpenBSD's ports build logic. This naturally led to my unifying both 
> ports. They're still separate ports, but they re-use a lot between 
> each other. I could probably go further and actually have them both as 
> one port.
>
> Note: In this WIP patch, i have not yet unified firefox-esr. That's 
> the last job.
>
> What do you think generally about this sort of change?
>
> Please note that the patch is not ready to merge yet.
>
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