Comment # 10 on bug 1127508 from Richard Brown

(In reply to Petr Vorel from comment #8)
> It's worth of mentioning that all other distros we test in LTP have it
> (various versions of Debian, Ubuntu, Centos, Fedora and even the old
> opensuse: from Docker [1]). Many people wanting just usable distro will move
> away to other distros (see discussion in research "[Research] where is ping
> ?" where lots of people are against minimal but unusable images
> 
> [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/.travis.yml
> [2]
> https://mailman.suse.de/mlarch/SuSE/research/2018/research.2018.12/msg00156.
> html

Debian and Ubuntu only have gzip in their packages as a result of it being a
hard requirement of dpkg

I'd assume it's a similar story in Fedora and CentOS but I cant for the life of
me figure out how to get such data out of dnf.

Zypper has no such requirement, and therefore the absence of gzip is a
considerable benefit of the openSUSE base container, which avoids this
unnecessary bloat.

Remember, OCI containers are intended to be used in a microservices
architecture where dozens if not hundreds of these containers will be used.

If gzip is not necessary in almost every-single usecase of the base container,
then it most certainly should not be there.

No user of a base container should ever assume anything besides the
package-manager is present, and should be installing what they need as part of
their container bootstrapping.