libX11, fonts and alsa in -headless variants

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Hi, I have been wondering why the headless variants of corretto include packages that I remember to be for a GUI such as alsa, fonts and libraries for X11.

The documentation states that these are only included in the headful variants: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-17-ug/amazon-linux-install.html

Trying to remove them is not possible due to dependencies to corretto itself:

$ docker run --platform linux/amd64 public.ecr.aws/amazoncorretto/amazoncorretto:17-al2023-headless dnf remove alsa-lib
Unable to find image 'public.ecr.aws/amazoncorretto/amazoncorretto:17-al2023-headless' locally
17-al2023-headless: Pulling from amazoncorretto/amazoncorretto
a98bc98bb91a: Pull complete 
0899efd2a031: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:bab4fbacc0dd19b10bb38c39225f8c7acd9c12353e28290e1141518ff55d2784
Status: Downloaded newer image for public.ecr.aws/amazoncorretto/amazoncorretto:17-al2023-headless
Dependencies resolved.
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 Package                            Arch    Version                  Repository      Size
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Removing:
 alsa-lib                           x86_64  1.2.7.2-1.amzn2023.0.2   @amazonlinux   1.4 M
Removing dependent packages:
 java-17-amazon-corretto-headless   x86_64  1:17.0.9+8-1.amzn2023.1  @@commandline  235 M
Removing unused dependencies:
 cairo                              x86_64  1.17.6-2.amzn2023.0.1    @amazonlinux   1.7 M
 chkconfig                          x86_64  1.15-2.amzn2023.0.2      @amazonlinux   756 k
 dejavu-sans-fonts                  noarch  2.37-16.amzn2023.0.2     @amazonlinux   5.7 M
 dejavu-sans-mono-fonts             noarch  2.37-16.amzn2023.0.2     @amazonlinux   1.2 M
 dejavu-serif-fonts                 noarch  2.37-16.amzn2023.0.2     @amazonlinux   3.4 M
 fontconfig                         x86_64  2.13.94-2.amzn2023.0.2   @amazonlinux   826 k
 fonts-filesystem                   noarch  1:2.0.5-12.amzn2023.0.2  @amazonlinux     0  
 freetype                           x86_64  2.13.0-2.amzn2023.0.1    @amazonlinux   891 k
 google-noto-fonts-common           noarch  20201206-2.amzn2023.0.2  @amazonlinux    15 k
 google-noto-sans-vf-fonts          noarch  20201206-2.amzn2023.0.2  @amazonlinux   1.1 M
 graphite2                          x86_64  1.3.14-7.amzn2023.0.2    @amazonlinux   201 k
 harfbuzz                           x86_64  7.0.0-2.amzn2023.0.1     @amazonlinux   2.2 M
 javapackages-filesystem            noarch  6.0.0-7.amzn2023.0.6     @amazonlinux   1.9 k
 langpacks-core-font-en             noarch  3.0-21.amzn2023.0.4      @amazonlinux   351  
 libX11                             x86_64  1.7.2-3.amzn2023.0.4     @amazonlinux   1.3 M
 libX11-common                      noarch  1.7.2-3.amzn2023.0.4     @amazonlinux   1.3 M
 libXau                             x86_64  1.0.9-6.amzn2023.0.2     @amazonlinux    64 k
 libXext                            x86_64  1.3.4-6.amzn2023.0.2     @amazonlinux    98 k
 libXrender                         x86_64  0.9.10-14.amzn2023.0.2   @amazonlinux    50 k
 libbrotli                          x86_64  1.0.9-4.amzn2023.0.2     @amazonlinux   771 k
 libjpeg-turbo                      x86_64  2.1.4-2.amzn2023.0.5     @amazonlinux   673 k
 libpng                             x86_64  2:1.6.37-10.amzn2023.0.6 @amazonlinux   251 k
 libxcb                             x86_64  1.13.1-7.amzn2023.0.2    @amazonlinux   1.1 M
 pixman                             x86_64  0.40.0-3.amzn2023.0.3    @amazonlinux   747 k
 xml-common                         noarch  0.6.3-56.amzn2023.0.2    @amazonlinux    78 k

Transaction Summary
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Remove  27 Packages

Freed space: 261 M