Re: lynx and brotly

On 10/19/25 11:42 AM, "Douglas R. Reno" ([email protected] via blfs-support 
Mailing List) wrote:
> On 10/18/25 7:49 PM, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing 
> List) wrote:
>> On 10/18/25 6:27 PM, "Rob E" ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List) wrote:
>>> You may want to look at https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/CHANGES.html
>>> first.  If I'm not mistaken they hacked the brotli changes into the gzip
>>> support.  Meaning if Lynx has gzip compiled in it behaves as though brotli is
>>> also present. This causes issues with sites that default to brotli, such as
>>> the Lynx home page. I suggest either reverting back to Lynx-2.9.1 or making
>>> brotli a dependency.
>>
>> We've already added brotli as an optional dependency for lynx.
>>
>>   -- Bruce
>>
> I think we need to do more here. The Lynx website itself doesn't load in Lynx without 
> Brotli installed, which is the default homepage set when you just run "lynx".
> 
> We should probably follow the advice of upstream and put it as either recommended or 
> required. I'd like to point out that Thomas Dickey, the maintainer of Lynx, said in 
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2025-10/msg00034.html that "It needs 
> the brotli package installed (both at package build time and runtime)." in reference 
> to this exact problem that cropped up a few days ago upstream.

OK, I promoted brotli to recommended in lynx.

   -- Bruce

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