• qaz@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    But why? It’s job is to install software, why make it worse by supporting less package formats?

  • BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    I mean this seems reasonable especially with how quickly flatpaks are becoming so common.

    I’m sure this wouldn’t happen for a very long time though

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      3 months ago

      While I prefer Debian packages, what’s wrong with Flatpaks other than a bit of bloat caused by redundant dependencies? They’re not Snaps.

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        3 months ago

        They acutally use deduplication. So if there is a package needed in e.g. 10 different flatpaks it will not take 10x the space on the drive.

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            3 months ago

            It was mentioned in a podcast from the linux cast - there was actually a guy (I believe he works for gnome) and he cleaned up with some prejudices about flatpaks. One of them being that they consume too much space on disk ;)