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

[James]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:51 AM Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

Can't we separate the two numbers in the ui to show eg:

```
Base dependencies: 2GiB
App: 200MiB
Total: 2.2GiB
```

?