You have been subscribed to a public bug: I'm using Ubuntu 14.10 dev with ifupdown 0.7.48.1ubuntu4 and upstart 1.13.1-0ubuntu3 and currently it is possible to remove ifupdown and upstart as they are not essential packages or any essential/manual package does depend on them. Here is the output:
root@ubuntu:/# apt-get remove ifupdown Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ifupdown upstart 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 895 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. As I know Ubuntu wants to change from upstart to systemd in the future so removing upstart may be fine but I'm wondering why ifupdown can be removed (wouldn't this remove the ability to create a network connection?). ** Affects: ifupdown (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: init-system-helpers (Ubuntu) Importance: Low Status: Triaged -- ifupdown and upstart can be removed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1357713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to init-system-helpers in Ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs