Different Mesa versions

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Hey,
I have the rpm fusion mesa drivers installed.

rpm -qa --qf “%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{PACKAGER}\n” | grep “RPM Fusion”
mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld 25.0.0 RPM Fusion
mesa-va-drivers-freeworld 25.0.0 RPM Fusion

I have seen that my discover has a flatpack update for mesa 24.3.4 availabe. The flatpack is from Freedesktop SDK.

How can I check what apps are using / are dependend on this flatpack? I thought the rpm fusion drivers replaced the other versions.
I know that apps installed via flatpack are installing their own dependencies but this one is it own install so I do not know what to do with it.

Could someone explain this situation and if I should install it or not/maybe uninstall?

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The standard rpm’s from the main repositories and rpmfusion are separate from the ones that flatpaks use.

Flatpak apps run inside their own environment, so they have their own libraries and codecs.

With flatpak it’s possible that different apps will use different library versions, so you can end up with multiple versions of Mesa. That’s one of the reasons why flatpaks may introduce a certain overhead on your system in terms of installation size.

You can use these commands to get more information about the installed flatpaks and their dependencies:

$ flatpak list
$ flatpak list --app --columns=application,runtime