Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux

Re:Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux by o11c on Sunday May 04, 2025 @08:28PM (#43890832)

That subproblem is fundamentally unfixable unless you're willing to allow incompatible objects to be passed around, which is a really bad idea.

If your code does:

  o = foo_v1.get_obj()
  foo_v2.use_obj(o)

then this is almost always undefined behavior, since the authors of `foo` will almost certainly not write their APIs to accept instances with different internals.

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Re:Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux by Dylan16807 on Monday May 05, 2025 @03:05AM (#43892580)

With a more advanced system you can look at whether a package's use of foo is exposed in its API or completely internal, and then allow different isolated islands of packages to use different versions of foo.

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