Why people don't install Flatpak?

[Gerard Braad]

> Even entire Linux distros are like 1GB, and that the size of ur app.

Correction: the size of the app is likely JUST a few megabytes. But as
you said, more likely the size of a distro.
And this is exactly happening. You are running a runtime, which can be
considered like a snapshot of a stable distro (a userspace) that the
applications can use. See it like a container or VM (without the
hypervisor need). This means that whatever the underlying distro does,
does not affect the userspace used by the appliction... and guess
what,m this is even shared among the applications. So mostly this
large chunk of download is a one time thing.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:38 PM Felipe Borges <felipeborges at gnome.org> wrote:
>
> Please, read https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/10/02/on-application-sizes-and-bloat-in-flatpak/
> to understand the storage consumption.
>
> Flatpak has the concept of a Runtime which contains low-level
> dependencies that multiple applications can depend on. Runtimes are
> useful to avoid duplication (imagine all gtk apps bundling their own
> Gtk) and to deliver updates (imagine a CVE was found in a core library
> that many apps depend on).
>
> All in all, when you are downloading a Flatpak application from GNOME
> Software/Flathub that depends on a runtime that you still don't have
> locally, it will pull the runtime alongside it. Thus the big
> download-size numbers you  have.
>
> So, for instance, when you downloaded the flatpak of a GNOME app, it
> will likely pull org.gnome.Platform for the first time if you still
> don't have it. The other GNOME apps you'd install afterwards will have
> a much smaller download-size.
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:05 AM Prabesh bhattarai <prabesh432 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ans: Because of it more than 900mb. That is a huge chunk of RAM and memory consumption. Why it is so heavy? Make it run below 100mb.
> >
> > Remove unwanted codes.
> >
> > Even entire Linux distros are like 1GB, and that the size of ur app.
> >
> > On the other hand, look at Snapstore, which take a small amount of RAM and memory. And does everything that your software does.
> >
> > P.S: Cutdown the flatpak from 930mb to 100mb if possible. Make it smooth and sexy.
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