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by kirbyfan64sos 1199 days ago
There should certainly be more tooling around finding these things out, but one thing worth noting is that you can `flatpak uninstall --unused` to remove old, unused runtimes (the runtime environments for apps).
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Wait ... they don't get removed automatically?

Is my system is guaranteed to fill up completely if I don't run that command regularly?

Unused End-of-Life runtimes get removed automatically now (as of 1.9.1), but the answer is a bit more nuanced than that, especially if there are multiple users on the same system (that could have user-specific flatpaks that use system runtimes).

It could also benefit users that have more disk space than bandwidth (I was in that situation for a while, though a mechanism for sharing runtimes with LAN peers would be nice).

Discussion: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/2639

Related blog entry: https://blogs.gnome.org/mwleeds/2021/01/11/cleaning-up-unuse...

Remove EOL automatically: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/3871