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> 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.




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