Comment 17 for bug 1523125

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Maarten Fonville (maarten-fonville) wrote :

I recently had the same issue with an accidental removal of the -extra package.

There are NO safeguards in apt warning about potentially rendering your system unusable if removed by accident.

And the linux-image package itself lacks many network drivers and ESPECIALLY LACKS USB HID support!

This results in installations not being able to be restored/fixed, because of missing keyboard/mouse input; and if you don't have SSH set up or are one of the unlucky ones with the appropriate network drivers missing in the linux-image package.