Does Warty need modutils ?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> This is scary: I asked synaptic to remove modutils (I'm running 2.6) and it
> insisted that it would also have to remove ubuntu-base, among other things.
> 
> This doesn't seem right, and I'm not gonna do it any time soon.
> 

ubuntu-base is only a meta-package.  It is actually harmless to remove
it, and will not remove and functionality of your system.