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Flatpak installs and shares runtimes. That's what makes it so stable, regardless of your distro. So yes, if you install 1 KDE app from Flatpak, you will have t

Flatpak installs and shares runtimes. That's what makes it so stable, regardless of your distro. So yes, if you install 1 KDE app from Flatpak, you will have the KDE runtime. But that is true if you install 1 KDE app while on Busybox as well. It's the subsequent KDE apps that will reuse the dependencies.

bandrami 1y ago
If those apps are built against the same runtime version
- aucisson_masque 1y ago
  Which is often not the case. For those of us with slow internet connections, flatpack take hours to download programs that would otherwise take seconds.
  - bandrami 1y ago
    And for those of who administer lots of systems, it means I have to track all of the bugs in multiple runtimes. How many versions of openssl are on my Silverblue laptop? I honestly couldn't tell you.
- const_cast 1y ago
  That's the entire draw of Flatpak - I can have applications with out of sync libraries and they just work. That's a big big headache with system provided packages.