Space Requirements (Dependencies)

[Ryan Gonzalez]

Many other Flatpaks share the GNOME Platform, so it's not being used
exclusively by GIMP. OSTree also de-duplicates any identical files in
anything Flatpaks apps/runtimes.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 7:31 PM Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 at cox.net> wrote:

> On another board, a question was posted about the space requirements of
> the GIMP package. On a new system, the Software Manager was estimating
> well over 1 GB - GIMP and Gnome Platform, most for the Gnome stuff.
> What I was wondering is why Flatpaks require the entire platforms (I've
> seen this with Okular needing the KDE platform) instead of just the
> libraries it really needs?
>
> As much as I like the Flatpak system, I was sympathetic to the user
> balking at installing something with such a huge space requirement when
> the normal (albeit older) package was significantly less intrusive. I
> personally don't care - space and download speed are not a problem for
> me, and I understand that these platforms will not need to be reloaded
> on every new install.
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