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0 pointsjosefx4y ago0 comments

> it’s been tested and almost all library packages are only used by one other package on the system.

I have a KDE desktop, are you trying to imply that only one of the dozens of applications provided by it actually use Qt? That only one of the dozens of image related programs use libpng, libtiff,libjpeg, etc. ? Or are you just citing a highly misleading statistic?

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Gigachad4y ago

GTK, QT and the core C stuff make up almost all of the shared library usage. Some obscure png cropping library will basically never end up shared even with dynamic linking. Flatpak does a great job of sharing the 1% that make up the 99% of usages while allowing version locking and bundling of that 1mb binary used by only one program.

lucian19004y ago

Qt in your case is one of the exceptions, just like GTK for Gnome users.

josefxOP4y ago

Any application that depends on either of those indirectly depends on libpng and dozens of others. Its a dependency tree, just cutting it of after the first dependency does not make sense in any context and even less so in a context that claims to measure package reuse.

Gigachad4y ago

The KDE and GNOME platforms contain all of those indirect packages. They contain basically everything generic that you need to build a GUI app. Then when you go off in to the specific little tools you need, you bundle those in.

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0 pointsjosefx4y ago0 comments

> it’s been tested and almost all library packages are only used by one other package on the system.

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Gigachad4y ago

lucian19004y ago

Qt in your case is one of the exceptions, just like GTK for Gnome users.

josefxOP4y ago

Gigachad4y ago

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