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false dichotomy

Posted Jun 18, 2016 13:28 UTC (Sat) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: this is sad by NAR
Parent article: Klumpp: A few words about the future of the Limba project

It's entirely possible to have the best of both worlds nowadays, just because library dependencies can be shared doesn't mean they have to. Flatpak otoh forces libraries to be bundled.

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false dichotomy

Posted Jun 18, 2016 15:55 UTC (Sat) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

Flatpak forces bundling of libraries that are not part of the runtime. Runtimes get shared. I expect as it matures you could combine runtimes. Whatever ostree supports.

false dichotomy

Posted Jun 18, 2016 20:56 UTC (Sat) by alexl (guest, #19068) [Link]

ostree deduplicates/shares any identical files. Of course thats not the same as one being updated when the other is...