Thanks for mentioning these.

I've been using Alpine religiously for years, until the build problems became too big. Mostly long build times and removed packages on major version updates.

Now I first try with Alpine and if there is the slightest hint of a problem, I move over to debian-slim. So things like Nginx are still in Alpine for me, while anything related to Python not any longer.

At first I thought your mention of docker-slim was an error for debian-slim, but I've followed the link am glad to have learned something useful.