Flatpak installs and shares runtimes. That's what makes it so stable, regardless of your distro.

So yes, if you install 1 KDE app from Flatpak, you will have the KDE runtime. But that is true if you install 1 KDE app while on Busybox as well. It's the subsequent KDE apps that will reuse the dependencies.

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bandrami 4 days ago | parent [-]

If those apps are built against the same runtime version

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aucisson_masque 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Which is often not the case. For those of us with slow internet connections, flatpack take hours to download programs that would otherwise take seconds.

	▲	bandrami 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		And for those of who administer lots of systems, it means I have to track all of the bugs in multiple runtimes. How many versions of openssl are on my Silverblue laptop? I honestly couldn't tell you.

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const_cast 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's the entire draw of Flatpak - I can have applications with out of sync libraries and they just work. That's a big big headache with system provided packages.