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[PATCH] Removal of Iridium as a suggested browser
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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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dudleyi_yahoo.com requested review of this revision.Mon, Jul 13, 1:39 AM
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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.

dudleyi_yahoo.com added a comment.Sun, Jul 19, 5:47 PM
In D58206#1335050, @pi wrote:

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

Be that as it may, the handbook does not ever walk through poudriere as a concept. Until the package is built by FreeBSD and provided, I still believe this is the right thing to do.

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