i just noticed that the blacklist entry for 'opera' does not
have an issue reference - if you add this package to the
blacklist, assign this issue as the reference for 'opera' too

so they would be of this form:

opera::parabola:2344:[nonfree] nonfree, nondistributable, built from binary installers, etc
opera-ffmpeg-codecs::parabola:2344:[nonfree] depends on nonfree 'opera'

odd that is says: "nondistributable" - if that were really true,
then arch could not distribute it - that is why its not great
to have entries without some documented reference

K, well now I want to do some digging to find out exactly what that means so I can give both clearer documentation when I blacklist this.

pulled the Arch PKGBUILD (as there was nothing in the Issue tracker nor the commit to explain further.

The PKGBUILD does indeed pull a binary.

source=(
    "https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/${pkgname}/desktop/${pkgver}/linux/${pkgname}-stable_${pkgver}_amd64.deb" 
    "opera" 
    "default" 
    'eula.html'
    'terms.html'
    'privacy.html'
)

# Based on Gentoo's chromium package (and by extension, Debian's)

- and -

# Prefer user defined CHROMIUM_USER_FLAGS (from env) over system
# default CHROMIUM_FLAGS (from /etc/chromium/default)
OPERA_FLAGS=${OPERA_USER_FLAGS:-$OPERA_FLAGS}

So things are definitely not good on several fronts if opera is based on chromium then even if there is source I'd be a freedom issue.

opera-developer in AUR also pulls a .deb in the PKGBUILD... Is there no source for this thing....

Goes to look....

O.k. From https://forums.opera.com/topic/26874/where-can-i-download-source-code-of-opera-browser-chromium

Where Can I Download Source Code of Opera Browser (Chromium)?

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    johnsmith1990  last edited by

    Hello!

    Can you say to me wher can i download source code of opera browser (Chromium)?

    Thanks!

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    leocg  Moderator  last edited by  @johnsmith1990

    @johnsmith1990 Opera is not open source. Opera's upstreamed commits to Chromium can be found here.

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So Dead to us for Oh so many reasons.