Requesting Information about Flatpak.

[Emmanuele Bassi]

Hi;

this blog post should explain why initial downloads without runtimes
installed are big:


https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/10/02/on-application-sizes-and-bloat-in-flatpak/

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 12:15, Strider S <stridersts at gmail.com> wrote:

It would be great if you were to display the download size the app would
> take or the size that Flatpak needs to download before installing.
>

As you can understand from the explanation in the article, listing the
application size would not be indicative of the actual download size,
because the website (I assume Flathub) does not know what kind of runtimes
you have installed on your system.

Newer versions of the Flatpak command line tool will be more explicit in
listing what they are downloading, and what is the expected amount of data:

  https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2018/12/19/flatpak-commandline-design/

Additionally, GUI tools like GNOME Software should also give you a better
indication of the size of each download.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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