I can't imagine that to be one of the more significant factors in this case. It's much more likely that the ubuntu version includes a lot more functionality. Ju

I can't imagine that to be one of the more significant factors in this case. It's much more likely that the ubuntu version includes a lot more functionality. Just looking at the configure flags: Alpine: --with-ldap --with-libedit-preferred --with-libxml--with-openssl --with-perl --with-python --with-tcl --with-uuid=e2fs Debian: --with-icu --with-tcl --with-perl --with-python --with-pam --with-openssl --with-libxml --with-libxslt --enable-nls --enable-integer-datetimes --enable-thread-safety --enable-tap-tests --enable-debug --disable-rpath --with-uuid=e2fs --with-gssapi --with-ldap --with-selinux Specifically the differences in enabling ICU (portable collations) and nls (i.e. translations) alone are probably going to be the majority of difference in installed size.