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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by akvadrako on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:27PM (#19863139)
Ubuntu is 40MB but if you add a few packages with tons of dependencies it can quickly reach 800MB. Alpine has much more reasonable dependency trees.
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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by meddlepal on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:41PM (#19863247)
--no-install-recommends is your friend
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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by CameronNemo on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @07:55PM (#19864103)
Many debian based images set this option by default.
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Re:Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password by sleepybrett on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:37PM (#19864892)
And a shitty library at the heart that makes everything suck just a bit more.
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