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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:08:02 +0100
From: Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>
To: Jeremy Schneider <schneider@ardentperf.com>
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Subject: Re: postgresql-client-common pulling in libipc-run-perl
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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.

Christoph