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minus-squarechronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoWhile I prefer Debian packages, what’s wrong with Flatpaks other than a bit of bloat caused by redundant dependencies? They’re not Snaps.
minus-squarezipping2583@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoThey acutally use deduplication. So if there is a package needed in e.g. 10 different flatpaks it will not take 10x the space on the drive.
minus-squarechronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoReally? Nice. Didn’t know that about Flatpaks.
minus-squarezipping2583@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoIt was mentioned in a podcast from the linux cast - there was actually a guy (I believe he works for gnome) and he cleaned up with some prejudices about flatpaks. One of them being that they consume too much space on disk ;)
While I prefer Debian packages, what’s wrong with Flatpaks other than a bit of bloat caused by redundant dependencies? They’re not Snaps.
They acutally use deduplication. So if there is a package needed in e.g. 10 different flatpaks it will not take 10x the space on the drive.
Really? Nice. Didn’t know that about Flatpaks.
It was mentioned in a podcast from the linux cast - there was actually a guy (I believe he works for gnome) and he cleaned up with some prejudices about flatpaks. One of them being that they consume too much space on disk ;)