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Can you elaborate on what you mean here? I’ve never seen a Debian install packages without docs in 20 years. What have I been doing right/wrong?

• hedora 2y ago
  If you use a `-slim` debian docker image variant, it won't have the manpages (or most locales, and apt will be stripped down, etc, etc). I think you can achieve the same thing on bare metal by being careful to tell it not to install a bunch of base package sets. Alpine is more container-focused than debian, so I imagine they default to something closer to `-slim`, but I haven't tried installing it on bare metal or in a VM.
  • bradfa 2y ago
    The "manpages" and any "locale" packages are neither required nor important so are not included in a Debian minbase install. If you want them, you can install them easily with apt. I'm not sure what you mean by apt being stripped down. You get the normal apt still.
• marcosdumay 2y ago
  On Debian some packages come with the manual, but have the info-pages as a *-doc (like coreutils), some packages come with basic manual and have extra ones on the doc package (like linux-image), some packages have no documentation at all on the main package (AFAIK nothing on the minimal installation), and some packages bundle everything.
  • chupasaurus 2y ago
    And *-doc packages are not required for their main counterparts.