> ubuntu-minimal depends on upstart and ifupdown, so supposedly you removed that. This is really not a supported configuration.
If this is not officialy supported I recommend to make ubuntu-minimal essential in this case. At least removing it is currently a valid configuration.
> Debian has a new essential package "init" which depends on systemd-sysv | upstart | sysvinit. We could decide to adopt that.
> Systemd (or perhaps something else too), does that as well. You can install systemd-sysv, purge ifupdown and upstart, and lo will be up.
This sounds like a possible solution for this problem then.
> ubuntu-minimal depends on upstart and ifupdown, so supposedly you removed that. This is really not a supported configuration.
If this is not officialy supported I recommend to make ubuntu-minimal essential in this case. At least removing it is currently a valid configuration.
> Debian has a new essential package "init" which depends on systemd-sysv | upstart | sysvinit. We could decide to adopt that.
> Systemd (or perhaps something else too), does that as well. You can
install systemd-sysv, purge ifupdown and upstart, and lo will be up.
This sounds like a possible solution for this problem then.