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If you peruse the 8.1/i386 package list you will not find a supported version of firefox. The project has been unable to build the i386 devel/rust dependency for over 3 quarters. After 2 quarters, it finally built on an x86_64 8.1 architecture. Still not building on 7.2/x86_64. Midori and netsurf also do not build. www/vimb is building on a webkitgtk version that has multiple cve's. That same webkitgtk version was updated in OpenBSD 2 months ago and was available to NetBSD prior to starting the 2019Q2 builds

I also emailed NetBSD port maintainers that had out-of-date/broken ports with either patches or links to fixes. I've never had a response.

Time and again, newbies post here about overwhelming build problems

I would repeat that newbies should review the packages presently building on their architecture and decide if it meets their needs. Do not mix binary packages unless pkgsrc temporally matches that used for the binaries. Lastly, do not assume that you will easily be able to build a package that the developers can not.