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[PATCH] Removal of Iridium as a suggested browser
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Authored by dudleyi_yahoo.com on Mon, Jul 13, 1:39 AM.

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The Iridium browser is not a reasonable suggestion for users of the handbook due to it's high cost to access. It is It is not available as a precompiled package due to the project's conscious blacklisting. This in turn makes the handbook inaccurate. Also, the ports tree version, which would have made for a suitable replacement instruction, requires the user to have 8GB of RAM, 35GB of storage space, and 1.5 million free inodes. See attached below.

According to bug #270565, this has been a problem and likely will continue to be a problem.

Test Plan
  1. Navigate to 8.3.3 in the Handbook
  2. Try to install iridium using the provided command.
  3. Notice it does not work.

Additional notes:

# cd /usr/ports/www/iridium
# make install clean

will produce a warning attached:

iridiumbuildreqs.png (96×289 px, 1 KB)

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iridium is normally build using poudriere for those that want to walk outside the beaten path. And there it builds fine. Please keep it.