Question about runtimes

[Mark Naughton]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 09:55:20AM GMT, Daniel Wilkins wrote:
> If flatpaks listed their actual dependencies, every flatpak
> might require a different version of a ton of libraries, causing a lot
> of duplication. The idea of runtimes is that they should (hopefully)
> release relatively rarely and so between all of your flatpaks you
> should hopefully just have one or two gnome runtimes, one or two kde
> runtimes.

No, I mean if I install a calculator that uses the GNOME runtime, why
not just bring in the parts of the runtime that the calculator needs? On
my system it seemed to bring in 700mb of unneeded dependencies. If I
install another program that shares that same runtime, then it could
bring it what it needs on an as-need basis.