Comment 4 for bug 67030

Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> writes:

> Not true,
>
> It's entirely legimate to install the upstart init daemon and then
> construct your own events in /etc/event.d without taking those
> provided by the distribution.
>
> That's why the dependency is a "Recommends", it would be unusual for
> them not to be installed, but it is permitted in a strict packaging
> sense.
>
> Of course, you don't have a supported Ubuntu machine, but then you
> don't anyway because you've clearly removed the "ubuntu-minimal"
> package which absolutely _depends_ on them as you suggest

Well, my system (something that started out as a WW at one point of
time) did not have an ubuntu-minimal installed...

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