Comment 10 for bug 219944

Well, there still is no warning on upgrade or any other way to make sure that Essential packages are installed (other than ubuntu-minimal, I guess). The reason I keep on insisting on this is that I was forced to remove ubuntu-minimal as it was pulling in either too many packages or some packages that were creating a problem for my 1GB vserver. On upgrading the system to the next release it became unbootable.

I think this one should be reasonably easy to fix. Why give up with Ubuntu on more minimal installations?