Why would anyone install 2GB of "normal" software when same version of that software available in like 100mb elsewhere officially?

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 11:44 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> Gerard Braad <me at gbraad.nl> wrote:
> ...
> > > I like the whole idea of 'flatpak' but its really disappointing
> > > that why such need of massive size of software package?
> > > Is it magical? = No.
> > > Is it lossless audio or something like that?= No
> > > Than why?
> > > A picture is worth thousand word, i gonna send u two screenshot:
> 
> I wonder if this should be considered to be a gnome-software bug.
> While it is true that the download might total 2.2 GB, if you include
> the "dependencies", it is misleading to suggest that the app itself
> is
> 2.2 GB. Most of the size is essentially a one-time setup step.

Yes and no. Most users will also want to know how much will be
downloaded to make the app runnable on their system, and they might
have data caps which a download like this would eat through.