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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:58:00 -0300
From:      Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, jose@we.lc.ehu.es
Subject:   Re: split opera into 2?
Message-ID:  <20020314095759.A77238@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
In-Reply-To: <xzpr8mo15l8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:10:59PM %2B0100
References:  <20020313142752.A61172@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <xzpr8mo15l8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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+----[ Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@ofug.org) dijo sobre "Re: split opera into 2?":
|
| Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> writes:
| > I just noticed that the opera port changed. Now it installs Opera 6.0
| > B1, instead of Opera 5. 
| 
| The Opera port has installed Opera 6 for several months.

OK, but in my particular case I just noticed it today, and installed 6
B1 to try it. 

The issues I said I had with 6 are those reported by others before.
(Thanks Jose for the pointer to the existing PR). Namely, opera keeps
hanging on "Sending request to ...". Sometimes it displays something
like 99% of the page loaded (in the lower panel) but 0 images, and
doesn't even attempt to display the page. 
This is less of an issue with local pages (in our intranet) or with
pages that have already been visited.

| 
| > Having /usr/ports/www/linux-opera5 and /usr/ports/www/linux-opera6
| > would be the solution. If you don't like 6 you can always go back to
| > 5!
| > 
| > What do you think?
| 
| I think that if someone else wants to do it, fine, but I won't.
| 
+----]

Any reasons for this? I'm not trying to force anyone onto my solution.
I would be interested in hearing pros and cons about having a
single port with the latest version and multiple entries in the port
hierarchy pointing to different versions.

You know, for quite some time Netscape 6 (and mozilla also) was
overkill for me. Too much time to load itself and it was just not
adequeate to my setup and hardware. Netscape 4 was OK. So I always
congratulated the ports system for carrying also old (but usable)
versions of browsers. I don't think this applies well to other ports
categories.
Browsers and office packages are real candidates. 
But again, I'd like to hear what other people think on this ...

Fernan

PS: we can have a plain 'opera' port for the latest stable version, and then
if you or others want to add a port for the latest betas, then we can
have opera6, opera7, operaZ. That way it is clear what is a stable
version and what is beta ... 

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