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Re:Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Sub... by nikisweeting on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:26PM (#25042803)
Unfortunately our image is ~450MB right now because we have install both Python and JS, Chrome, fonts, vido codecs, and a bunch of other software for all the extractors.

Most of it is from this killer 266MB line, but unfortunately we need all these things:

    apt-get update -qq && \
    apt-get install -qq -y --no-install-recommends \
        wget curl chromium git ffmpeg youtube-dl \
        fontconfig fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-thai-tlwg fonts-kacst fonts-symbola fonts-noto fonts-freefont-ttf && \  
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
https://hub.docker.com/layers/nikisweeting/archivebox/latest...

Any 10MB here or there will help, whether it's from Chrome core or something else. If you have any suggestions I'm all ears!

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Re:Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Sub... by graderjs on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:24AM (#25043033)
Yeah the fonts take alot. Why do you need to slim the images down? Do you really need the fonts present to archive the content, I thought you were saving the HTML, wouldn't these fonts just be needed to render?
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Re:Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Sub... by nikisweeting on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:56AM (#25043162)
The fonts are for PDF and screenshot rendering.
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Re:Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Sub... by graderjs on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:40AM (#25043624)
Have you considered doing the install at usage time? If you're trying to save on bandwidth of downloaded images....
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Re:Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Sub... by nikisweeting on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:16AM (#25057716)
Doesn't help, they're used almost immediately.
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Re:Slimium: Debloating the Chromium Browser with Feature Sub... by dflock on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:12AM (#25042989)
Maybe give this a try: https://github.com/docker-slim/docker-slim
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