Public bug reported: ubuntu-minimal should not depend on ureadahead.
Reason #1, on theoretical grounds: ubuntu-minimal is supposed to pull in the minimal functioning system. ureadahead is not required for a functioning system. Therefore, ubuntu-minimal should not depend on ureadahead. Reason #2, on practical grounds: ureadahead does have some drawbacks (such as not working and causing error messages when /var is on a separate partition, or actually increasing boot time), and on servers, which are rarely rebooted, it's not of much use anyway. Therefore, I (and presumably others) would prefer to remove it, but this requires removing ubuntu-minimal as well, which the latter's package description recommends against. Removing the dependency would allow for a clean removal of readahead while keeping ubuntu-minimal. Please note that I'm not opposed to ureadhead per se – I do recognize that it's likely to be beneficial to the majority of systems, and I'm fine with having it installed by default; I just want to be able to uninstall it without affecting other packages. Perhaps instead of having a hard dependency, ubuntu-minimal could recommend or suggest ureadahead? Or maybe the dependency should be moved to ubuntu-desktop (or some related package), since desktop systems are most likely to benefit from it, and probably also most likely to have /var on the root partition. For the record, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, but according to http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/ubuntu-minimal, the dependency still exists in raring. ** Affects: ureadahead (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1096232 Title: ubuntu-minimal: Remove dependency on ureadahead To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ureadahead/+bug/1096232/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
