gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > An ls -lR of /var/lin/flatpack | wc -l shows: > > gene@coyote:~$ ls -R /var/lib/flatpak|wc -l > 44889 > Nearly 45000 files for one app????
That's primarily due to the runtime (org.gnome.Platform), which indeed adds considerable overhead for a single application, though it is shared among all Flatpak apps using the same runtime. Additionally, remember that OSTree employs hard links to have multiple copies of the same file. You can investigate this by running find /var/lib/flatpak -links +1 -ls Flatpak effectively functions as container technology akin to Docker, but specifically for GUI applications. Unlike traditional Debian packacking, applications do not rely on system libraries or other runtime components, except for the kernel. This allows for the distribution of applications that function across various distributions. While this design has its strengths and weaknesses compared to traditional native packaging, it represents a notably different approach. See https://flatpak.org/faq/
