Vanilla kernel metapkg
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Bug Description
It would be nice to have a small, empty metapackage that fills the dependencies that the Linux kernel fills. That way if one wants to run only a vanilla kernel on their system, they can, without having to keep Ubuntu kernels around and updated. For example, I run kernel's from upstream git, Torvalds' repository in particular. It's trivially easy to install them and call the appropriate things to build a initramfs and the GRUB menu, but of course, it cannot provide anything since it's not installed as a package.
Just a minor idea for an enhancement. The empty metapackage could always have a version of 2.6.(x+1) where x is the version of the kernel distributed for that release of Ubuntu.
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