Post #3484694
2026-06-28 14:58 UTC
Why is Bazaar so much more performant than GNOME Software? Is PackageKit really that much of a strain performance-wise compared to just using the Flathub API? Or are there other reasons?
#Bazaar
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@pwithnall@mastodon.social 2026-06-28 17:53
@bragefuglseth@sunny.garden Supporting multiple backends can be slow (PackageKit can be part of that problem in some cases; depends what package servers you’re querying and how fast they return results, etc.). For the more visual artifacts (multiple refreshes, changing state seemingly randomly) it’s because the original gnome-software architecture didn’t have very fine-grained updates for things — it took a “refresh everything all at once” approach. It’s taking us a while to move away from that. 1/