• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Indeed, for a single app it might be a lot, considering it’s a single app. But even then it’s not a lot of disk space out of what people have. But with every additional app, that additional space use lessens thanks to shared runtimes and dedupping.

    Also i don’t know what is flapak runtimes which are big and different versions of them are required for different apps

    I think a few of the most used one cover most apps, but even with different runtime versions and I think even different runtimes, thanks to dedupping it should only use extra space for stuff that’s actually different between the two. Two instances of the same library in different runtimes would only use the space of one, afaik.

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      Yeah. The problem is when I want to install one flatpak app and it takes space.

      Are thoose runtimea like a library itself? The runtime itself seems to be using more than a hundred megabytes of space. Isn’t the deduplications applicable only for libraries used in different runtimes but runtimes itself uses space, right?

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        8 months ago

        Runtimes are collections of common libraries. The idea is that instead of everyone having to bundle everything, they can use the same runtimes. Yes, dedupping only takes effect when you have multiples of the same library.