(This is a half-rant half actual question)
I wanted a nice qt theme to use on Scribus since Arc Dark doesn’t work on there. When I tried to install it, pacman said this will install 50 packages. 300 Mb in total.
Why does a theme need packages such as Kauth and Kwallet?
And what do you get from that?
More bloat from flatpak overhead :^)
The point is, it’s all self-contained within Flatpak, and won’t slow down and pollute your regular package manager when you’re doing updates, or say you want to grep some package or whatever. More importantly, fewer dependencies == lesser chances of things breaking. And because it’s sandboxed, you don’t need to worry too much about having an older library or whatever that’s needed to work. And in case you want to uninstall it, it’s a fairly clean process, whereas uninstalls via your package manager may not always be clean.