On Freitag, 8. Juli 2022 23:19:22 CEST Carlos E. R. wrote:
Does this mean that the flatpack of calibre would contain inside the proper version of python? Would this not mean that we would need powerful computers with huge hard disks, to have this pentaplication of libraries, and a corresponding large CPU to cope with all this?
It would be the end of using Linux on old computers. If this is so, I have to find another distro.
Each Python 3.x would probably be a flatpak runtime. On top of that you could have an "extra" (or whatever) runtime layered on top, which includes a set of very common dependencies/python modules. You can think of flatpak runtimes as somewhat coarse-granular set of packages. There likely is *some* waste due to duplication or not strictly required depencies, but in most cases this is neglegible. The calibre flatpak than only has to bring additional modules which are not included in the runtimes below, and are very often only used by this single application. Regards, Stefan