• brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    It CAN get pretty wild sometimes, though. For example, Flameshot (screenshotting utility) is only ~560KB as a system package, while its flatpak version is ~1.4GB (almost 2.5k times as big)

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      6 months ago

      Flameshot is 3.6MB on disk according to flatpak info org.flameshot.Flameshot

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        6 months ago

        Weird, the software manager (using LM 21.3) reports 1.1GB dl, 2.4GB installed (which is different from when i checked yesterday for some reason?). flatpak install reports around 2.1GB of dependencies and the package itself at just 1.3MB

        EDIT: nvm im stupid, the other reply explains the discrepancy