After purging snap completely, I just tried to install just gnome-calculator with snap.
$ sudo aptitude install snapd
(some output)
$ snap install gnome-calculator
2019-01-15T09:32:40-05:00 INFO Waiting for restart...
Automatically connect eligible plugs and slots of snap "gnome-calculator"
$ sudo du -sh /snap
489M /snap/
If you run the calculator, then this happens:
$ sudo du -sh /snap/
1.1G /snap/
Is this really lighter than installing it with apt-get?
After purging snap completely, I just tried to install just gnome-calculator with snap.
$ sudo aptitude install snapd
(some output)
$ snap install gnome-calculator 15T09:32: 40-05:00 INFO Waiting for restart...
2019-01-
Automatically connect eligible plugs and slots of snap "gnome-calculator"
$ sudo du -sh /snap
489M /snap/
If you run the calculator, then this happens:
$ sudo du -sh /snap/
1.1G /snap/
Is this really lighter than installing it with apt-get?
$ apt-cache --no-all-versions show gnome-calculator | grep '^Size: '
Size: 253432
Unless I am very much mistaken, those are bytes.