Ive just gone to update my flatpak. I now have to download 7 slightly different versions of nvidia drivers. 7 Fucking times the same Nvidia driver. 7. 7 Goddamn times.
And no, I dont want to hear your excuses for this. I dont care if it only downloads 370 Mbs instead of 371.
flatpak remove --unusedAny idea why flatpack doesn’t remove unused (automatically installed) dependencies automatically or at least give a hint, as e.g.
aptdoes?mfw
flatpak removedoes not remove flatpakDoes
apt removeremove apt?
And if that doesn’t work, just remove the nvidia drivers that do not match the installed version. It may give you a warning that the package is in use but it shouldn’t be an issue if you (OP) keep the version that matches your driver
Why are you even using flatpak if its core usecase offends you?
Why are you even using flatpak if its core usecase offends you?
That meme doesnt really work the way you want it to here. I get what you’re going for but that’s one hell of a stretch.
How about you use the native packages then?
Sometimes I do pull the source and build natives myself, just to spite these fuckers
But that’s only because I know how to fix their seventeen build errors
Meanwhile I’m chilling with the AUR and a rather good knowledge about how to create and maintain PKGBUILDs
well, users of atomic distros that can’t do that and have to rely on containerized applications e.g. via flatpak (appimage, … that other one …)
That one meme, with the kid sticking a stick into their own bicycles’ wheel
Temba, their hands open.
is linux mint atomic, can’t google im on a train
nope
Not up to date enough / unavailable / I don’t want to compile. Spin the wheel, pick a reason.
Nvidia
Makes sense
The more I learn about flatpaks, the more I wonder what the fuck happened to APT GET that it was necessary to have everything in one package. Apt would grab dependencies, too, if they were necessary the last time I was heavily using Linux. Is that no longer the case?
Two big reasons I know of are dependency conflicts (not a thing with flatpak…i.e. package A requires one version of lib, package B requires a different), and sandboxing (flatpak has no access to the (file)system unless specified).
So one of the biggest problems Flatpaks solve is that you can have different versions of dependencies installed at the same time (in this particular case, it’s a problem, because the Nvidia drivers are huge). Imagine you have two packages, P1 and P2. Both depend on library L1, but P1 depends on the newest version, L1 2.0, while P2 depends on the last version, L1 1.0. If the package P2 is open source, you can just rename L1 1.0 to L1-1 and patch it, but if it’s not open source, you can’t patch it, and P1 and P2 can’t be installed at the same time.
It also saves developer time, because the OS devs don’t have to maintain a package for every single app that comes out for Linux. Instead, the app developers make one package with all the dependencies they need and the right version of each and push it up to Flathub, where it can be installed on every OS.
It’s almost like this is the point of flatpak
Lol nvidia
hah, i use amd
As a NixOS user i don’t see the problem lol
I wish nixOS was easier
Just get rid of everything Nvidia. Problem solved.
7 slightly different versions of nvidia drivers
and then
7 Fucking times the same Nvidia driver
seems inconsistent…
Is it the same driver or is it different? If the drivers are different, then it seems like a good thing? The app using the driver has exactly the version it wants. There shouldn’t be any surprises now in the code because oops this is a slightly different nvidia driver.
Where is the meme?
Nvidia drivers
Package: Uses version of other package dev told it to
User: Complains
try “flatpak remove --unused”
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