I went to install some software today (Gradia) which is only available via Flathub apparently, the install size is larger than my distro which feels like a bit much for a screenshot tool. What’s the deal with the massive size of Flatpaks and is it really worth all the extra space? 4GB per application?

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    This doesn’t occur with a Flatpak install because all the dependencies are baked into the Flakpak.

    The dependencies aren’t “baked into” the Flatpaks in the sense that they included in their archive, like e.g. AppImage, but Flatpak manages to install several different versions of depencies.