Requesting Information about Flatpak.

Strider S stridersts at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 00:08:40 UTC 2019


Cool, thanks!

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, 14:14 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 9:41 AM Strider S <stridersts at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > Thank you for the information!
>
> This is a general problem though. We tend to over-report sizes because
> the complexity of how to calculate the *actual* download size. This
> complexity is actually *good* as it allows us to do get very efficient
> download, however the fact that we can't display the right value means
> we're getting a bad reputation. I think the new CLI helps this a bit,
> but that is not at all visible if you use gnome-software or some other
> frontend.
>
> I wonder if there is some very simple workaround we can do in the
> frontends to make it obvious that the number shown is just a
> pessimistic maximal estimate.
>
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