[hayleighdotdev]

> Perhaps this is a packaging issue on my system though.

Gleam is only officially distributed via the releases on GitHub [1] so if you pick up Gleam from a package manager that's always maintained by someone else. I think most of those community distributions do include Erlang and bits which is probably what pulled in all those extra packages!

[1]: https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/releases/tag/v1.13.0