You can save a lot of space by deduplicating the files if you use a file system that supports that (zfs, btrfs, ntfs if you can find a driver the supports it).
Flatpak already does deduplicating for you on all filesystems.
I’ve run into a few programs that rarely got updated on the AUR but got regular Flatpak updates. The AUR wrappers are only so good as the people maintaining them…
I’ve cleaned up a couple of gigabytes of duplicates on my BTRFS partition this week, this stuff is almost essential if you deal with stuff like node_modules and Python virtualenvs.
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Especially when it installs into your home partition. That just feels like my personal space has been invaded. Had to link it to a folder in /opt
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You can save a lot of space by deduplicating the files if you use a file system that supports that (zfs, btrfs, ntfs if you can find a driver the supports it).
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Flatpak already does deduplicating for you on all filesystems.
I’ve run into a few programs that rarely got updated on the AUR but got regular Flatpak updates. The AUR wrappers are only so good as the people maintaining them…
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Wait, what now?
That sounds awesome!
Flatpak does deduplication already (there are tools you can use to check the stats) but for what remains you can try tools like Duperemove to do some file-level deduplication on file systems that support it.
I’ve cleaned up a couple of gigabytes of duplicates on my BTRFS partition this week, this stuff is almost essential if you deal with stuff like node_modules and Python virtualenvs.