> On Jul 20, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Richard Hughes wrote: >> Sure they can. If you install the KDE runtime and the GNOME runtime, >> these are both built upon the Freedesktop runtime and share a huge >> number of files. Any duplicate files get deduplicated on disk -- you >> don't even download the duplicates when you update either or both of >> them. > > The files are still technically duplicated, they just happen to be > deduplicatable (and as pointed out by Hedayat Vatankhah elsewhere in this > subthread, the duplicates will still have to be downloaded in the > implementation that is being proposed at this time, which offers the > runtimes as single-file OCI blobs). Sharing without duplicating would mean > having dependencies between the runtimes, so that the KDE runtime can > actually Require the Freedesktop runtime. Couldn't the files all be addressed by hash or even use a tool like casync? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
