Author here. I did run these numbers, I guess I just didn't think to write them up. I've recomputed them for Alpine 3.21 here.
Maximising the number of packages gives 5492/5536 packages (99.2%) for just main, with a total install size of 17.03GiB. Including community gives 25026/25383 packages (98.6%) with a total install size of 107.85GiB.
If we instead maximise the total installed size directly, we install 5428/5536 (98.0%) packages from main, with a total install size of 17.06GiB. Including community gives 24711/25383 packages (97.4%) with a total install size of 110.36GiB.
Of course, if you're building a container, it would be redundant to install a kernel, so these numbers are somewhat inflated.
> Of course, if you're building a container, it would be redundant to install a kernel, so these numbers are somewhat inflated.
Depends what the container is for; I've used containers to build bootable OS images and had to explicitly install kernel and associated packages. Obviously that's a weird edge case, but if we're discussing installing as many packages as possible we're already off the beaten trail.
Maximising the number of packages gives 5492/5536 packages (99.2%) for just main, with a total install size of 17.03GiB. Including community gives 25026/25383 packages (98.6%) with a total install size of 107.85GiB.
If we instead maximise the total installed size directly, we install 5428/5536 (98.0%) packages from main, with a total install size of 17.06GiB. Including community gives 24711/25383 packages (97.4%) with a total install size of 110.36GiB.
Of course, if you're building a container, it would be redundant to install a kernel, so these numbers are somewhat inflated.
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