• moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I guess someone is super happy they saved a few hundreds kilobytes of disk space though.

    Yes. All the people basing docker images off if debian, and trying to get them as small as possible. The splitting up of packages, allows people to only pull in what they need.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      If you base your Docker images on a full distribution then that is entirely your fault. People usually use specialized distributions for that.

      You could even bootstrap your needed tooling from Busybox.

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        5 months ago

        Debian or Ubuntu are usually the best choice if you depend on glibc. Alpine is definitely more compact but musl isn’t always an option.

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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        5 months ago

        Specialized distributions like minideb still use the Debian packages, they just use fewer by default.