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My system Python tree is almost 1GB. That doesn't matter for desktop systems, but most software is published as container images these days and using a language
by wvh 3y ago
My system Python tree is almost 1GB. That doesn't matter for desktop systems, but most software is published as container images these days and using a language like Python, Ruby or Perl for an image that doesn't already need it is pretty wasteful and pulls in a lot of extra dependencies.
I'm not sure there is a good alternative to sh/bash shell scripts as most dynamic languages have become pretty large dependencies these days.
- kaba0 3y agoThat surely includes plenty of globally installed dependencies. I looked at the package sizes for debian and it is around 100 kB for the python3 package and on the order of another 100kb for python3-minimal. Couldn’t find a cumulative install size, but it is surely not larger than a few megabytes.