Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux

Re:Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux by hedora on Sunday May 04, 2025 @05:59PM (#43889960)

There has been a choice between shared and static linking since before the Linux kernel existed.

What system are you talking about?

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Re:Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux by patrakov on Sunday May 04, 2025 @10:42PM (#43891520)

Any modern distro. Static libraries are simply not built anymore, so you have nothing to link with, unless you rebuild the whole subsystem yourself.

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Re:Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux by hedora on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @12:20PM (#43906853)

If that's true, it'll be the second thing I check after making sure a distro I'm considering isn't using systemd.

Anyway, you had me worried for a minute, but:

Click on a C library. Click on the *-dev package. There's a 1:1 mapping of .so to .a in the packages I spot checked.

Now I'll go back to enjoying Devuan.

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