Space Requirements (Dependencies)

[Cole Rogers]

As someone who was trying to download the gnome runtime over a slow
internet connect, I can confirm it is pretty annoying to donwload the
whole thing instead of installing parts of it as needed. Also a pain if
the download fails for some reason or I have to cancel it.

Douglas Summers writes:

> On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 18:14 -0700, Douglas Summers wrote:
>> On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 10:56 +1000, Michael Gratton wrote:
>> > On 20 September 2018 10:44:05 Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Personally I prefer the Flatpak system - everything just seems
>> > > cleaner.
>> > > But how should I explain this to a new user that freaked out over
>> > > seeing 2 GB required for GIMP 2.10 when 2.8 was less than 62 MB?
>> >
>> > This seems like a UX issue. Providing a breakdown of download sizes
>> > (for
>> > example, "62Mb + dependencies" with a popover for full details)
>> > would
>> > at
>> > least provide an idea of where the data is going and why.
>> >
>> > //Mike
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> OK - here's what the user got when trying to install GIMP 2.10 via
>> the
>> Linux Mint 19 Software Manager: https://forums.linuxmint.com/download
>> /f
>> ile.php?id=44035&mode=view
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>
> Sorry - it cut off my link.
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/download/file.php?id=44035&mode=view
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