• MajinBlayze [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    It’s not quite that simple.

    Each package can choose one from a handful of runtimes to use, each of which include common dependencies (like gnome or qt libraries), and if multiple flatpaks use the same runtime, that runtime is only downloaded once.

    It is less space efficient than your typical package manager, but brings other benefits like sandboxing.