If you're in a special-purpose environment, you don't have to go with the metapackages - in fact it will generally make sense to strip down the system rather than using something intentionally designed to be generic. ubuntu-minimal is about the minimum we're prepared to support as an Ubuntu system, but there's absolutely nothing to stop you producing something more basic for yourself out of the packages in the archive. You might start with everything that's marked "Essential: yes" and work from there.
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