If you’re posting from Desktop Linux, your comment utilized at least 10 liberally licensed libraries. And that’s before it got into the wire. GPL packages are a MINORITY, not a majority with exceptions.

There are a lot less GPL projects in your system than you might think. Your core system is already filled with liberally licensed libraries and programs. Case in point, since you talked about rust rewrites, original sudo is not GPL software.

Did you ask an LLM to write a comment full of cliches?

Only looked at the Cargo.toml files.

• (pet peeve) Considering there is (presumably) no compatibility concerns, why not use an efficient binary format instead of JSON?
• Not checking in Cargo.lock files, and using = dependency versions for Phoenix_Desktop, is a bit odd!

What’s wrong with it

• It’s a random crate no one uses.
• You’re not even really “using” it. You are just importing a re-export of reqwest, which is what I expected you to immediately notice after I brought it into attention. You can obviously just remove it and use reqwest directly.
• Still, trusting a re-export is not a trivial matter. The random author of the no-name crate could replace the original reqwest with something malicious, or bad in some other way, in a v0.1.1 release. That (theoretical) release will be picked up after a cargo update call, or when Cargo.lock is not checked, which is the case by default with libraries.

How did you find that crate?
Why do you think you need it?

Can you explain the rust-fetch dependency?

Why Peter Thiel though?

It was a (failed) joke about your user-name.

How much “vibe coding” is involved?

And are you Peter Thiel by any chance 😉

You are in a thread where a user is having a problem because of the push for flatpaks, and because of some distros like Fedora crippling their packages and providing objectively worse alternatives on purpose (because they don’t want to risk RH IBM getting sued). If the user was using some sane community distro like Arch, the user would have never come to realize that such unnecessary issues even exist.

As for flatpak hate specifically, see my ramblings here.

Users are better off using a “freeworld” ffmpeg package, or not using Fedora at all. The cisco decoder is shit.

your life will be better if you stop using both flatpaks and openh264.