Removing ubuntu-base?

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Rami Kayyali wrote:
>> AFAIK, ubuntu-base is a meta-package, which is used in the upgrade
>> process. You can remove it without any issues, but it may cause problems
>> if you're planning on upgrading in the future.
> 
> what kind of problems?

Nothing of relevance: all the important base packages will be installed
anyway, because other packages will depend on them.

Quoting from the description of ubuntu-base (Hoary version):

 It is safe to remove this package if some of the base system packages are not
 desired.

And I guess the same is true for the Warty version, but they updated the
description to reflect this only now.

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