On 07/06/16 20:19, Nathan Haines wrote: > On 06/07/2016 04:14 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >>> 5) Evidently, Snap packages are all-sufficient. Average snap should be >>> bigger than average deb. Why Krita in snap package ~100 мб, but Krita >>> in deb package with their dependency ~500 mb? > > Oh, you know this one, Mark! > > It's because deb packages are uncompressed during installation and > stored around the filesystem, whereas a snap is a heavily-compressed > squashfs that's mounted in place without being uncompressed on disk. :)
Yes indeed :) Also, Krita doesn't need all the files in all the deps. Especially as more of the krita deps are expressed as source parts, the package size will come down. Mark -- Snapcraft mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
