gentoo VS chocolatey-packages

Whilst Firefox may support hardware video decoding, Mesa since March 2022 disables patent encumbered codecs by default[1], and distributions such as Fedora and OpenSuse do not explicitly enable these patent encumbered codecs to avoid possible legal problems. Even Gentoo (built from source code by the user) requires the user to explicitly enable a USE flag (proprietary-codes) to use patent encumbered codecs.[2]

The thought process is that AMD, NVIDIA, Intel and the likes are not providing a patent license with their hardware.[3] They are instead just supplying part of an overall system that together with operating system kernel, display manager software, video player software, etc allows the decoding and encoding of patent encumbered video files. Open source software projects and distributions are concerned they'd be found to be infringing patents by enabling a complete solution out-of-the-box. Hence they put some hurdles in place so that a user has to go out of their way to separately piece together the various parts to form a complete system capable of encoding and decoding patent encumbered codecs.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/15...

[2] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/1265a159743d7f07185a...

[3] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]...

Thank you! I don't live in git and this helps! Normally under gentoo I shouldn't have to. This actual git https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo (as opposed to the gentoo browser view) plus this "checkout the commit" should get me much further. ... And probably deserve some space in the gentoo docs.

You choose - here's a list

(pending) gentoo/gentoo #30595 sys-cluster/kubescape: new package, add 2.2.6

profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults:

There are a couple on the Chocolatey Community Chocolatey Packages repository, but I'm not sure which ones off the top of my head.

For https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages/issues/2232 the issue is not that python 3.11 is not available but that earlier versions with security patches for recent a CVEs are not. So the latest version of 3.9 from the chocolately community repo at the time of writing is 3.9.13. 3.9.16 has the fix.

(pending) chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages #2226 (kubescape) Add Kubescape package

Remember when the VirtualBox license still allowed commercial use, as long as you installed it yourself manually? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

For a great example of community involvement, see the Chocolatey Community Chocolatey Packages repository which has 340 packages and 617M downloads of those packages.

Meh...

Here is the exact case you mention, just WAY worst. This is something I did for chocolatey community:

https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7...

This page checks ~250 web sites for updates on various software. Today it has 6 errors and usually never much more. On my own location I keep ~60 packages and I get errors I tackle errors maybe once a year.

Check out the settings which make it so robust:

https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-packages/...

This is not the right place to ask about package updates. If there is an issue with the freecad package, I would suggest that you raise an issue here: https://github.com/chocolatey-community/chocolatey-coreteampackages/issues

FWIW I got it working on Windows 10 19041.685, but had to add $env:APPDATA\Python\Python39\Scripts to my user $PATH. The default path from Chocolatey Python 3.9 is at C:\Python39\Scripts\