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I mean I guess they could bundle tiny C compiler but your point about the C compiler is more about how modern distributions bundle and distribute compilers more

I mean I guess they could bundle tiny C compiler but your point about the C compiler is more about how modern distributions bundle and distribute compilers more than about varnish depending on a C compiler. You can choose to install the smallest subset of the libraries required to enable varnish to perform its job. Not like varnish explicitly requires libgmp to do bignum arithmetic. It's how your distribution of choice installs gcc and pulls in all the stuff with it.

icebraining 10y ago
No, gcc requires libgmp, it's not just a choice by the distribution. But even if it was, that is exactly why Firefox pulls libtiff - it's not like it explicitly requires the library, it's just how the distribution installs libgdk-pixbuf. Yet PHK uses that as an example of the waste created by the development model.