[jjayj]

I regularly build images where we install Python from source, which makes 30m seem quite normal...

[bhouston]

Why?

[jjayj]

We do development/builds in containers to make things easier on the devs. These are the Python build containers, so we have to rebuild every time there's a new version of Python or one of its dependencies.

[xyst]

Maybe to secure the supply chain

[smallerize]

If they can't trust their own build cache, they really have problems.