[wvh]

My system Python tree is almost 1GB. That doesn't matter for desktop systems, but most software is published as container images these days and using a language like Python, Ruby or Perl for an image that doesn't already need it is pretty wasteful and pulls in a lot of extra dependencies.

I'm not sure there is a good alternative to sh/bash shell scripts as most dynamic languages have become pretty large dependencies these days.

[kaba0]

That surely includes plenty of globally installed dependencies. I looked at the package sizes for debian and it is around 100 kB for the python3 package and on the order of another 100kb for python3-minimal. Couldn’t find a cumulative install size, but it is surely not larger than a few megabytes.

[CamJN]

Just span up a clean alpine linux container and installed python3, it added 51MB according to apk.

[marcthe12]

Arch does not do much spliting (except ruby where there is some kind of circular dependency)

Any way for: python - 75M perl - 59M ruby - 25M bash - 8M dash - 0.15M