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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:57:42 +0000
From:      Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        Pau Amma <pauamma@gundo.com>, koobs@freebsd.org, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, portmgr@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bringing back lang/python27 with few modules?
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 07:46:35PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> On 22/11/2021 10:46, Rene Ladan wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 01:57:56AM +0000, Pau Amma wrote:
> >> On 2021-11-18 01:37, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> >>> We've had many user reports over the last year re the entire
> >>> situation, including a number recently about pypy in particular.
> >>
> >> Late to the discussion, but I'm sad that Chromium survived the Python2.7
> >> removal and Iridium didn't. :-(
> > 
> > Upstream Iridium always seems to lag behind Chromium for a bit, but it is
> > doing OK now I geuss (one major version behind). The problem with Iridium
> > is also volunteer time to keep the port up to date, one Chromium-like port
> > is already a lot.
> 
> Even if you are OK with Chromium, there are users for which Chromium is 
> not an option and Iridium is more than just preferable. (or Ungoogled, 
> or Brave or something else not so heavily tied to Google spying / tracking)
> 
> Removing Iridium was a really bad step.
> 
To all of those that keep complaining that Iridium got removed:
feel free to bring it back and maintain it.

Regards,
René



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