Task-Section: user
Task-Relevance: 9
Task-Description: Minimal base system
Task-Extended-Description: This task installs the core of an Ubuntu-based system.
Task-Test-new-install: install skip
Task-Seeds: required

Note that some packages that form the core of an Ubuntu-based system are in the required seed, from which this seed inherits. The minimal seed describes those packages at Priority: important.

Recommends are followed when processing this seed even though debootstrap doesn't do that. This may occasionally produce confusing results; however, it should be correct at release time, since the results of processing the seed are synced to Priority: important overrides.

= Hardware and Architecture Support =

== Generic ==

== i386, i686 ==

 * libc6-i686 [i386]

== ppc32, ppc64 ==

 * mac-fdisk [powerpc]
 * pmac-fdisk [powerpc]
 * powerpc-utils [powerpc] # ColinWatson

== sparc ==

 * libc6-sparc64b [sparc]
 * libc6-sparc64v [sparc]
 * libc6-sparc64v2 [sparc]
 * libc6-sparcv9b [sparc]
 * libc6-sparcv9v [sparc]
 * libc6-sparcv9v2 [sparc]
 * sparc-utils [sparc]

== Comfortable Unix System ==

Programs and packages necessary for both the proper functionality of the system and that any user would expect to find on a modern Unix-like system.

 * adduser
 * apt
 * apt-utils         # apt-extracttemplates is required for debconf preconfiguration
 * bzip2
 * console-setup     # https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/sane-installer-keyboard
 * kbd
 * eject             # very popular, useful, small
 * gnupg             # introduce security from the very base
 * initramfs-tools   # needed for the Ubuntu kernel
 * less
 * lsb-release
 * module-init-tools # required for kernel 2.6
 * netbase
 * rsyslog
 * sudo              # LaMontJones
 * tasksel           # used by installer to install desktop etc.
 * ubuntu-keyring     # for authenticated package downloads
 * udev
 * ureadahead        # get things into cache as quickly as possible during boot
 * vim-tiny
 * whiptail          # for debconf's Dialog frontend

== Networking ==

These provide various networking services, all should be configured in a client-only state with the server de-activated unless the user requires it.

 * dhcp3-client   # LaMontJones
 * iproute
 * ifupdown
 * net-tools
 * ntpdate        # FabioMassimoDiNitto

 * iputils-ping
 * netcat-openbsd # FabioMassimoDiNitto

= Meta =

 * ubuntu-minimal     # Ubuntu-specific bits we want on every Ubuntu system

= Other =

 * python             # -minimal is essential, but upstream doesn't want python-minimal shipped alone