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I had a quick look at the PKGSRC on AUR. It uses QtWebKit which is the biggest stumbling block, given that most or perhaps even all distributions killed that for security reasons. I recently found out that an "AI and automation" company forked and revived QtWebKit, so there is a tiny chance distros will package it again but don't hold your breath. There was a promising fork once and I'd guess there will be an attitude by packagers that they've fallen for a fork before and that never got off the ground.