I know snap is fairly unpopular in the Linux community, and I’ve seen mixed responses regarding Flatpak. I wanted to know, what’s the general opinion of people in this community regarding this 2 package managers?
I know snap is fairly unpopular in the Linux community, and I’ve seen mixed responses regarding Flatpak. I wanted to know, what’s the general opinion of people in this community regarding this 2 package managers?
I like Flatpak in general and it might be the future™ but I hate how huge the packages are
It definitely is an inconvenience and I don’t have a fix for an existing install. However on a new install the filesystem can help to reduce the size with deduplication and compression:
# compsize /var/lib/flatpak/ Processed 235840 files, 76506 regular extents (181549 refs), 132457 inline. Type Perc Disk Usage Uncompressed Referenced TOTAL 60% 4.6G 7.7G 17G none 100% 3.0G 3.0G 6.3G zstd 35% 1.6G 4.6G 10G