Talk:Zero Install
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"The system only works well with machines that are always online. Even if a program is mostly installed and usable, accessing the documentation or a new language while offline may fail."
I'm the author of Zero Install, so I don't like to edit the disadvantages section myself for obvious reasons. However, it may be worth pointing out that although you *could* split packages up like this (and rely on Zero Install to dynamically pull in the missing pieces), it is much more common to use exactly the same package granularity for Zero Install as you would with apt-get, etc. In fact, a Zero Install package is often actually an unmodified .deb, .rpm or .tgz. In this case (and I can't think of any exceptions), Zero Install behaves exactly the same as for traditional installation.

