Removing ubuntu-base?

[Travis Newman]

You WILL have problems if you try to upgrade to hoary. The switch from
fam to gamin, xfree to xorg, won't work, and a lot of stuff will be
broken.

But as has been said before, if you're not planning on upgrading
there's no problem at all.


On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:56:54 -0800, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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