Karna to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 month agoGNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpakswww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down17
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minus-square@chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•1 month 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-square@zipping2583@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 month 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-square@chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 month agoReally? Nice. Didn’t know that about Flatpaks.
minus-square@zipping2583@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 month 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 ;)