Comment # 3 on bug 1191246 from Charles Arnold

In my testing of Leap 15.3 installing with a minimal server pattern I get
the following when doing a 'zypper install --no-recommends virt-install'
at the command line.

"
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 55 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  adwaita-icon-theme at-spi2-core gdk-pixbuf-loader-rsvg
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders gtk3-data gtk3-schema gtk3-tools libXcomposite1
libXcursor1 libXdamage1 libXfixes3 libXi6 libXinerama1 libXrandr2 libXtst6
libappindicator3-1 libatk-1_0-0 libatk-bridge-2_0-0 libatspi0 libcairo-gobject2
libcolord2 libcroco-0_6-3 libdbusmenu-glib4 libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libepoxy0
libgdk_pixbuf-2_0-0 libgtk-3-0 libindicator3-7 libjson-glib-1_0-0 libosinfo
libosinfo-1_0-0 librest-0_7-0 librsvg-2-2 libsoup-2_4-1 libssh2-1
libvirt-glib-1_0-0 libvirt-libs libwayland-client0 libwayland-cursor0
libwayland-egl1 libxkbcommon0 osinfo-db python3-ipaddr python3-libvirt-python
python3-libxml2-python typelib-1_0-AppIndicator3-0_1 typelib-1_0-Atk-1_0
typelib-1_0-GdkPixbuf-2_0 typelib-1_0-Gtk-3_0 typelib-1_0-Libosinfo-1_0
typelib-1_0-LibvirtGLib-1_0 typelib-1_0-Pango-1_0 virt-install
virt-manager-common xkeyboard-config

55 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 24.2 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation,
additional 78.9 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y):
"

This is much smaller than what you are seeing although still much larger
than 16 packages at 5 MB on some unspecified older version.