Space Requirements (Dependencies)

[Douglas Summers]

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