Removing ubuntu-base?

[Daniel Robitaille]

> 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.

you are right.

The only problem, and I'm sure it will bite some people in April
during the Warty to Hoary upgrades, is that if you remove ubuntu-base
and/or ubuntu-desktop then you could run into problems during an
upgrade from one version of Ubuntu to another, since without these
meta-packages, you will miss some packages during the upgrade.  But on
a running Warty system you are fine.