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?

  • @bazsy
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    2 years ago

    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