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Comment 7 for bug 439566

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote : Re: add software-properties-common to ubuntu-standard

Adding software-properties-common to the server seed would add 54.7 kB to the CD, and 543 kB to the install:

# apt-get install --no-install-recommends software-properties-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python3-software-properties unattended-upgrades
Suggested packages:
  bsd-mailx mail-transport-agent
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python3-software-properties software-properties-common unattended-upgrades
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 54.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 543 kB of additional disk space will be used.

I was initially alarmed by unattended-upgrades, but then realised that it doesn't enable by default (you must dpkg-reconfigure -plow). So behaviour will not change.