Comment 13 for bug 1711249
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| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote Re: Why? | #13 |
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E) In the bug description you point out that a Snap can easily be an order of magnitude larger than a Flatpak. However in comment #10 it is said that "The org.gnome.Platform runtime is approximately 200MB". So it sounds like a Flatpak'd desktop can ship smaller apps by having more/larger dependencies built in to the core. That sounds reasonable for a desktop, but is contrary to Snappy's initial design. Snaps could do the same if we wanted; that's just a fixable bug/feature and not an argument against Snaps' existence.
But I think all sides are losing the size argument (see iOS too). If you write plain C code then your binary size should be on the same order of magnitude as the source code. It contains the same /information/.