Server installs improperly install openoffice

Binary package hint: language-support-en

On installing Ubuntu 9.10 server, it seems that Open Office is installed as language-support-en depends on language-support-writing-en, which in turn depends no OpenOffice, myspell etc. This causes all sorts of unnecessary software (such as various X11 libs, a JRE, some GNOME libraries).

Having this sort of software installed by default via the ubuntu-server task seems inappropriate?

I am able to cull all of this out without any issue, except that it takes a good amount of time to do so, and introduces an unnecessary step in an install process that could introduce user error (ie, accidentally uninstall ubuntu-standard and a whole lot of other essentials)