Re: gnome software reports download size much bigger than installed size

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 3:18 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Fedora 29 Workstation
>
> I'm finding a weak pattern when source is dl.flathub.org. A
> significant minority of dl.flathub.org apps report rather huge
> download sizes, and two or three orders magnitude smaller installation
> size. I'm not seeing this for other sources, even for the same app. A
> sample:
>
<snip>
> Is this a known bug? If not, what information is needed to file a bug
> report? I can't imagine downloading this much data for one app, but
> then it ends up not really needing this much storage space? That
> doesn't seem possible.


Just a guess (I don't work on this), but maybe it's showing the size
including the dependencies (like the platform)? So while the top-level
flatpak might be small, the complete infrastructure to run it might be
huge.
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