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Nathan Haines
nhaines at ubuntu.com
Tue Jun 7 11:19:16 UTC 2016
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. :)
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