Simon Josefsson wrote: > the docker container images (which are typically > used for CI) or the cloud images (which are typically used in Kubernetes > environments). I'm not sure there is a trend that container images for > OS's are growing, I think most distributions are actively trying to make > them as small as possible
Yes, definitely. When you look at cloud / docker images, there is no concept of "standard tools" any more. The first occurrence of this trend was the missing 'join' program on Alpine Linux [1]. Now 'cmp' on RHEL 9 and 'awk' on Fedora 42... In hindsight, for the 'join' problem, it would have been better if we had merely documented as a prerequisite; this would have saved us the the time implementing workarounds. Bruno [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2021-04/msg00041.html
