Flatpak has the concept of a Runtime which contains low-level dependencies that multiple applications can depend on. Runtimes are useful to avoid duplication (imagine all gtk apps bundling their own Gtk) and to deliver updates (imagine a CVE was found in a core library that many apps depend on). All in all, when you are downloading a Flatpak application from GNOME Software that depends on a runtime that you still don't have locally, it will pull the runtime alongside it. Thus the big download-size numbers you have. So, for instance, when you downloaded the flatpak of a GNOME app, it will likely pull org.gnome.Platform for the first time if you still don't have it. The other GNOME apps you'd install afterwards will have a much smaller download-size. For more details, see https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/10/02/on-application-sizes-and-bloat-in-flatpak/ We have failed to communicate that in the UI in GNOME Software, but that's something that has been discussed/worked on at the moment. On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:33 AM Michal Konecny <mkonecny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You can see the same behavior on flatpak itself. The download size is > often much larger than actual size. > I think the gnome software can't have better values till the flatpak > itself figures this out. > > mkonecny > > On 26/02/19 21:17, Chris Murphy 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: > > > > atom > > source dl.flathub.org > > installed size 521.4 MB > > download size 4.7 GB > > > > geany > > source dl.flathub.org > > installed size 7.5 MB > > download size 4.8 GB > > > > > > builder > > source dl.flathub.org > > installed size 123 MB > > download size 4.8 GB > > > > builder > > source fedoraproject.org > > download size 11.7 MB > > > > visual studio code - OSS > > source dl.flathub.org > > installed size 235.7 MB > > download size 2.0 GB > > > > android studio > > source dl.flathub.org > > installed size 422.4 kB > > download size 5.8 GB > > > > 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. > > > > > > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ > desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
