Space Requirements (Dependencies)

[Douglas Summers]

On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 19:34 -0500, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> 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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I understand how Flatpak shares its dependencies. The question was
really about the need for entire Gnome platform, which GIMP obviously
doesn't need. I did a comparison on installing GIMP with snap; it did
pull in some Gnome dependencies, but just the ones that GIMP required.

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?