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Old 12-26-2020, 11:34 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by frmald View Post
140M AppImage file vs 350M calibre-portable directory. I think there's usefulness for AppImage, but let's agree to disagree.
I didn't say there is "no" usefulness.

I said you're incorrect to state that the usefulness is "you get an executable that can be easily run from the external HDD".

Feel free to continue moving the goalpost, though.

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I maintain my belief that being concerned about 140M vs. 350M overlaid on a squashfs read-only root instead of filesystems with built-in compression is sufficiently niche that everyone seeing this DIY recipe will consider tarballs easier.

Especially given the advantage of containing the (multiple) desktop files, mimetype icons, shell completions, etc.
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