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Ubuntu is 40MB but if you add a few packages with tons of dependencies it can quickly reach 800MB. Alpine has much more reasonable dependency trees.



--no-install-recommends is your friend


Many debian based images set this option by default.


And a shitty library at the heart that makes everything suck just a bit more.




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