[LimaBearz]

Sure, but we're talking about an application written for a cloud/hosted environment in a datacenter somewhere. nicking at the size of a statically linked binary meant for production grade environments with fast computers and fat pipes feels overly pedantic no? Especially when we're talking about a mere 100MB

[immibis]

All the more reason! On the cloud, you're often paying per kilobyte.

[apetresc]

Not for ingress, and certainly not for packages that are mirrored from the cloud vendor's own repositories (which Prometheus absolutely is).