> Of course, if you're building a container, it would be redundant to install a kernel, so these numbers are somewhat inflated. Depends what the container is f

> Of course, if you're building a container, it would be redundant to install a kernel, so these numbers are somewhat inflated. Depends what the container is for; I've used containers to build bootable OS images and had to explicitly install kernel and associated packages. Obviously that's a weird edge case, but if we're discussing installing as many packages as possible we're already off the beaten trail.