Would the bundled VLC be redundant to an existing system install of VLC? Would it be usable instead of a system install? Would the bundled VLC get updates?
I normally have VLC installed anyway, but I'd rather not have to keep a separate copy on disk just for Frescobaldi. On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 10:33 PM Federico Bruni <f...@inventati.org> wrote: > Il giorno ven 18 ott 2019 alle 23:14, J Martin Rushton via > lilypond-user <lilypond-user@gnu.org> 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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