Re: Frescobaldi, improve support for audio export

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno ven 18 ott 2019 alle 23:14, J Martin Rushton via 
lilypond-user <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> There is a VLC available through flatpack, but I've not used it (so
> therefore cannot comment), but have seen warnings that it will pull in
> up to 1.2 GiB of other packages including the complete KDE 
> implementation.

$ flatpak info org.videolan.VLC | grep 'Installed'
  Installed: 77,7 MB

$ flatpak info org.kde.Platform//5.13 | grep Installed
  Installed: 910,3 MB

The KDE runtime may be used by other Qt applications installed in your 
system.

You may want to read this post by the author of Flatpak:
https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2017/10/02/on-application-sizes-and-bloat-in-flatpak/

In a nutshell: Flatpak is a bundling system and as such it requires 
more disk space, but the benefits (of shipping a self-contained and 
independent application) may offset the cost for some people, 
especially today (as large disks are smaller and cheaper). The article 
explains how ostree helps in reducing the duplication between similar 
runtimes.