Yeah, but minimal should do what it says, and the whole point of a distribution is not having to do this kind of thing. You should not have to work around your

Yeah, but minimal should do what it says, and the whole point of a distribution is not having to do this kind of thing. You should not have to work around your distro, especially deliberate choices. If Ubuntu needs people to have this package for support, why don't they have a ubuntu-recommended package that depends on it and that's installed by default, and let people who want something minimal to have it?