cloud images and lxc

[Kapil Thangavelu]

Hi folks, 

per bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/915520
"local provider should use cloud images"

i was looking around for what we could do to solve the package selection gap 
between the minimal lxc containers we get by default and the cloud-images we use 
in other providers. We've had discussions before about just using the cloud-images 
on lxc, but its clear we don't have the availability to make that happen for 
12.04. As an easy to implement alternative i've been thinking we could just 
install the package set when we customize the 'template' container that we clone 
for units via

sudo apt-get install tasksel && tasksel --task-packages cloud-image | xargs sudo 
apt-get install

does that sound reasonable?

cheers,

Kapil