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Re:micro – A Modern Alternative to nano by swozey on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:38AM (#37175459)
I thought 20MB was a lot.

I did "nano debian size" on google and one of them mentions - The Nano package contains a small, simple text editor which aims to replace Pico, ... Download size: 1.5 MB. Estimated disk space required: 20 MB.

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/nano....

Re:micro – A Modern Alternative to nano by vdfs on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:40AM (#37175487)
That's not true for Debian either:

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/nano

But building from source is a different story, if you stripe and clean build dir it will be similar to prebuilt .deb