Comment on My least favorite thing about Flatpak

donut4ever@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can save a lot of space by deduplicating the files if you use a file system that supports that (zfs, btrfs, ntfs if you can find a driver the supports it).

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait, what now?

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    • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Flatpak does deduplication already (there are tools you can use to check the stats) but for what remains you can try tools like Duperemove to do some file-level deduplication on file systems that support it.

      I’ve cleaned up a couple of gigabytes of duplicates on my BTRFS partition this week, this stuff is almost essential if you deal with stuff like node_modules and Python virtualenvs.

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  • donut4ever@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I use xfs since it is the only one that I have zero issues with. Also, I don’t need flatpaks (rarely do), the AUR basically has everything I personally need.

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    • skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Flatpak already does deduplicating for you on all filesystems.

      I’ve run into a few programs that rarely got updated on the AUR but got regular Flatpak updates. The AUR wrappers are only so good as the people maintaining them…

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      • donut4ever@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I can count my installed AUR programs on my fingers.

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