Removing ubuntu-base?

[Rami Kayyali]

Ok, I figured it out. I extracted control files using dpkg-deb -e
ubuntu-base_version.deb, and seems to me that all this package does is
list dependencies so that you can install ubuntu-base and apt will
install all its dependencies.

Basically, it's safe to remove if you don't want postfix, dhcp, etc.
This way, you'll drop what Ubuntu think is a base system, and you're
on your own in installing packages.

I hope I'm right, since I'm a bit new to Debian and Debian-based ditros.

Rami Kayyali


On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:08:48 +0100, Danilo Piazzalunga
<danilopiazza at libero.it> wrote:
> 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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