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This could be smaller by removing compilers and build headers. If I'm not mistaken I see GCC is currently part of this.

I would prefer to manually install build-essentials when needed (I can then get rid of them after compiling via multistage builds).

Alpine Linux specifically makes you manually install compilers and necessary headers via

  apk add --update build-base

EDIT: Make is not being installed by default. But I would like to manually install GCC as needed (for a truly minimal image).

EDIT2: I stand corrected. Looks like GCC isn't installed by default (which is exactly what we want for minimal images). Awesome.

The gcc-7-base package (assuming that's what you're looking at) looks like it's just an empty directory to put various gcc things and some basic docs.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc-7-base

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/gcc-7-base/filelist

Thanks! I was looking at [1] and wasn't sure if those were binaries.

That's perfect then. Install GCC, compilers, build headers etc via `sudo apt-get install build-essential` when necessary. So this should be the same general approach as on Alpine.

[1]: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/26506363/

libgcc_s.so.1 is a collection of utility routines used by all sorts of programs. The entry named "gcc" is a directory (that contains only empty directories?). /usr/share/gcc-7/python/libstdcxx/ is from the libstdc++6 package (looks like gdb pretty-printers for C++ standard library types).

debian does that too

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