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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Appimage doesn't do deduplication where possible like Flatpak does, where did you get the idea that Flatpak packages are bigger?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I was also wondering about this. Flatpaks apparently come with more libraries to interact with other Flatpaks, whereas AppImages tend be purely app-specific and their libraries are compressed for their usage only.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Flatpak doesn't come with more libraries to interact with other flatpaks. It comes with libraries that the application's flatpak you're downloading requires. However, when installing the flatpak those libraries do not get installed if they are already on the system.

So widget-flatpak needs lib-a and lib-b. You're system already has lib-b that flatpak is using for as another flatpak.

You install widget-flatpak. lib-a gets installed but lib-b does not because you already have it.