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Simultaneously arguing that Flatpak isn't the future because it relies on runtimes that may duplicate resources, and then suggesting that you should statically

by mjg59 5y ago

Simultaneously arguing that Flatpak isn't the future because it relies on runtimes that may duplicate resources, and then suggesting that you should statically link in all your dependencies (creating far more duplication than Flatpak runtimes) seems… odd?

stitched2gethr 5y ago
In practice I'm not sure there would be much duplication. Even for tools using the same libraries they are very often using different versions.
- teddyfrozevelt 5y ago
  In practice, the deduplication is pretty good. I have 78 Flatpaks installed (apps and runtimes), and here's my dedup stats (calculated from https://gist.github.com/powpingdone/001a46aa7db190b9c935f71c6091eb71 https://gist.github.com/powpingdone/001a46aa7db190b9c935f71c...): =========================================== no dedupe: 16.0 GB (17228518418 B) dedupe: 11.7 GB (12594871766 B) singlelet: 8.1 GB (8677649129 B) orphan: 1.8 GB (1889889290 B) =========================================== deduplicated size ratio: 73.10 singlelet space usage: 68.90 singlelet file ratio: 63.56 orphan space usage: 15.01 orphan file ratio: 2.63