Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months agoI wouldn’t mind so much if they all just used the same bundle of stuff, and you could install that once, and then the apps were all like 2MB each.
But no, big fucking bundle of shit, every single time.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Eh, that’s not the joy you think it is.
That’s how software used to be distributed and that’s where the terms DLL / Decency Hell come from and why programs used to not uninstall cleanly and break other programs, etc.
It’s more efficient, but it’s also brittler and a lot more complex to manage. Conversely, bundling everything together with all its dependencies is a lot easier to manage, and a lot more robust overall, but comes at the expense of storage capacity and network bandwidth.
captainjaneway@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Would be kind of cool to allow people to choose an install method. As someone who has experienced low bandwidth in rural homes, it would be nice to avoid the waste at the cost of possibly managing chromium versions myself.