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Bruh just use nix, flatpak or appimage πΏ (we don't talk about snaps)
"Just use Flatpak."
"But that will use 2GB when a system package will use 34MB."
"Duh, it's not 2GB total. Flatpaks share dependencies."
"I don't have any other Flatpaks on my system."
"..."
"..."
"OK, so it'll be 2GB. Your next one will be smaller, though."
"If I install one and if it shares any dependencies with the first one."
"Pff. You're just a hater."
"Yeah, I hate that something that should be small is using 2GB of space."
"The space consumption isn't my preference either, but I'd rather be using the app than fighting dependencies. I wish you luck with your dependency chain then."
Both you and @iopq@lemmy.world missed the word "is" in the last sentence.
The hypothetical hater clearly installed the package.
The hypothetical hater is wasting time talking about it because you can install nix on most setups, even Mac OS
And it has the most packages, a number of magnitude more than snaps and flatpaks combined
Sure but this is exactly what Windows and Macos apps do as well. So you're basically complaining a package doesn't do better than industry standard.
Sure it can be better and wanting things to be more efficient is perfectly calid, I'm just asking to set more reasonable expectations.
Of it's in your native repo? Perfect! If not, you have the option to waste some disk space or taking the effort to run configure && make && make install
Or, you could save time by not caring about the 2GB and just installing it. If you really care, get it from nixpkgs
Would be nice if all software would be ready as a flatpak or appimage.