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Re:Edbrowse – A Command Line Editor Browser by augusto-moura on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @11:10PM (#32175332)
It depends on quickjs for the JavaScript implementation, which should be fairly simpler to compile on a hand rolled Linux. I'm not so sure about PCRE though
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Re:Edbrowse – A Command Line Editor Browser by ttgurney on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:43AM (#32179301)
Oh I'm sure the actual work to compile those packages is not much. It's more to do with keeping the number of packages on my system to a minimum.

Actually I would not be surprised if the JavaScript engine can be omitted with just a little bit of patching work... assuming there's not actually a build configuration that leaves it out. I've found that with some software projects and their dependencies, "required" does not always mean required.

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