https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/c2882c541f5bd5cfdd28a505a4e635d42c7fd946/jessie/build-command.txt https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian

https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/c2882c541f5bd5cfdd28a505a4e635d42c7fd946/jessie/build-command.txt https://github.com/tianon/docker-brew-debian/blob/c2882c541f... It's using debootstrap --variant=minbase, which (from the man page) "...only includes essential packages and apt." It makes sense that docker would want only the bare minimum. And to be fair, but getting into nit-picking territory, minbase is the default for debootstrap, but debootstrap is not the default method of installing Debian: debian-installer is. So docker's Debian image doesn't install less, but they're not doing a default install, as in invoking debian-installer, and keeping the preselected choices as much as possible.