convert markdown to pdf in commandline

what is the simplest tool to convert markdown to pdf in commandline? I have found howtos where people suggest to use pandoc, but the required packages need gigabytes of dependencies: apt-get install pandoc texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-extra is there some minimal tool that can convert simple markdown to pdf in commandline, that does not require tons of dependencies? I am using Debian 10.