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Removing /repo is not considered safe, but I just removed its contents anyways and then just ran a repair.
That actually resulted in more available disk space than after running the garbage collection.
And my flatpak apps still work 🤷♀️
I can't tell if this is the new "Delete System32" or not.
no, that'd be deleting /boot, /usr or /var
Why not /? 😁
because then it also deletes your personal files which is not equivalent to deleting System32