"flatpak install" lists 1075 MB worth of download. Is that a bug?

[jaimet]

(Moved from #24)
I run a non-gnome box (bspwm on xorg) but I do have all the usual gtk3 libraries already installed. Here's what I see when I try to install pwvucontrol:

$ flatpak install flathub com.saivert.pwvucontrol
Looking for matches…
Required runtime for com.saivert.pwvucontrol/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/46) found in remote flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: 

com.saivert.pwvucontrol permissions:
    ipc     fallback-x11     wayland     x11     dri     file access [1]

    [1] xdg-run/pipewire-0

        ID                                               Branch                 Op            Remote             Download
 1.     com.saivert.pwvucontrol.Locale                   stable                 i             flathub             < 29.6 kB (partial)
 2.     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default              23.08                  i             flathub            < 172.2 MB
 3.     org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default              23.08-extra            i             flathub            < 172.2 MB
 4.     org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel             23.08                  i             flathub             < 13.4 MB
 5.     org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264                2.4.1                  i             flathub            < 976.5 kB
 6.     org.gnome.Platform.Locale                        46                     i             flathub            < 367.7 MB (partial)
 7.     org.gnome.Platform                               46                     i             flathub            < 346.7 MB
 8.     com.saivert.pwvucontrol                          stable                 i             flathub              < 1.5 MB

The "Download" column totals to approx 1075 MB. Is that a bug?

[saivert]

No that is right. org.gnome.Platform alone is 917MB then you have the stuff to make hardware acceleration possible (OpenGL and VAAPI) which is required by org.gnome.Platform.

pwvucontrol uses GTK4 and libadwaita.

It doesn't matter what you have installed on your host system as flatpak uses its own set of system libraries in the runtimes.

You can type this in a shell:

flatpak info org.gnome.Platform//46

To show info about the runtime.

[jaimet]

Ok. I'll have to find an alternative then. Thank you.