Requesting Information about Flatpak.

[Strider S]

Hey,

Thank you for the information!

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, 18:37 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi at gmail.com wrote:

> 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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>
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