On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:08:02 +0100
Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de> wrote:
> Re: Jeremy Schneider
> > So the real question is why the client-common package has a hard
> > requirement on libipc-run-perl, and whether we can make this
> > dependency optional (or remove it). That would trim about 45MB off
> > the base container size, which is meaningful since these base
> > images are very widely used.
>
> You are missing the fact that postgresql-common is written in perl.
lol, yes i sent this email before tracking down what the package is and
what is does and how its written (it looks like a different package from
the postgresql client itself, but its a hard dependency of the client)
i'll go find the code and start reading
-Jeremy
