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Not true even for all apps having just libc.

I wanted to port my semi-minimal 3D ECS game engine ~(10k lines) to a minimal distro, so I decided on Alpine after figuring Arch is actually very bloated on comparison.

I had to recompile even the single-executable command line prebuild system (premake5) for musl. Musl is a more minimal version of libc.

Got it to work fine after that, building a few components from source and getting a few like sdl from the distribution's repos. (also had to of course install relevant driver bits to get opengl working as the distro is truly minimal)



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