(This is a half-rant half actual question)

I wanted a nice qt theme to use on Scribus since Arc Dark doesn’t work on there. When I tried to install it, pacman said this will install 50 packages. 300 Mb in total.

Why does a theme need packages such as Kauth and Kwallet?

  • michaelroseEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t enjoy troubleshooting flatpak specific issues when a native package is available personally. Honestly who cares if it pulls in 50 deps if they take in total a few GB when 2TB ssd are cheap.

      • michaelroseEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        those “hundreds of deps” are part of your flatpak and you will probably be downloading just as much fortunately fast internet is relatively cheap as is storage space and you probably won’t notice if it takes 15 seconds more.

          • michaelroseEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Normal packaging systems don’t get stuck nor break because you installed more software and its hilarious that you are somehow removing bloat by using a packaging system that calls for you to download the same deps over and over again.

              • michaelroseEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I have 2 flatpaks installed and I already have duplicated runtimes not to speak of the deps themselves that are built into the apps. There is definitely duplication.

                  • michaelroseEnglish
                    11·
                    1 year ago

                    If package foo requires runtimev1 and bar requires runtimev1.1 you will end up with installing v1 and v1.1 with similar but not identical files and if another package requires 1.2 and 1.3 and 2.0 then 2.1 eventually you will have a whole lot of libsomethingorother.

              • michaelroseEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Normal systems that you don’t do something extremely creative with don’t normally develop conflicts because the packages are literally all designed to work with the same version.

                The words " bloating up your actual system and package database." don’t actually mean anything except that you don’t know what any of those words mean together.

                  • michaelroseEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    I have used countless distros over 20 years including Arch although right now I’m primarily running Void on my personal computers. “Bloating up the package database” remains a meaningless factor because it doesn’t bear meaningfully on real world performance or experience. Your computer doesn’t break more or perform worse because you installed more software because this isn’t windows.