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[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago

Flatpaks have helped me a lot reducing bloat, avoiding dependency hell.

That said, probably there's some overlapping dependencies that, if installed in a different way I could save some space, but it's not worth it in my opinion.

I'm also using rootless podman+systemd for certain services, but that's been a mixed bag compared with plain old docker or LXC.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I thought the number one drawback to flatpaks is that they're enormous because each one includes all its own dependencies

[-] jack@monero.town 10 points 7 months ago

No, same dependencies get deduplicated

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Ah interesting. Good to know. Thank you

[-] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago

But you need at least one runtime right? How much overlap is it between what's included in the base install and the runtime?

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

we are all runtimes on this blessed day

[-] Samueru@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Flatpak is like the most bloated thing ever because of the runtime and all the dependencies it needs.

I did a test, flatpak with just firefox installed used 3 GiB of space.

While 15 appimages that includes heavy applications like libreoffice, kdenlive and two web browsers uses 1.2GiB.

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