diff --git a/live-build/auto/config b/live-build/auto/config
index f881cc87..b5c722a4 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/config
+++ b/live-build/auto/config
@@ -1109,8 +1109,7 @@ case $PROJECT in
 		KERNEL_FLAVOURS=virtual
 
 		if [ "${SUBPROJECT:-}" = minimized ]; then
-			add_task install cloud-image
-			add_package install sudo lxd-installer
+			add_package install ubuntu-cloud-minimal
 		else
 			add_task install minimal standard cloud-image
 			add_package install ubuntu-minimal
@@ -1210,7 +1209,11 @@ case $PROJECT:${SUBPROJECT:-} in
 		BASE_SEED='wsl'
 		;;
 	ubuntu-cpc:*)
-		BASE_SEED='server'
+		# we don't preseed any snaps in minimized images, so no need to set
+		# BASE_SEED in that case.
+		if [ "${SUBPROJECT:-}" != minimized ]; then
+			BASE_SEED='server'
+		fi
 		;;
 	ubuntu-server:live)
 		BASE_SEED='server'
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/chroot/999-cpc-fixes.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/chroot/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
index 9a25c0a0..6d7b62ea 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/chroot/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks.d/chroot/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
@@ -91,37 +91,6 @@ if [ -L "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img" ] && [ ! -e "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img" ]; the
 	rm "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img"
 fi
 
-# Recommends of ubuntu-server that should not be included in cloud images by
-# default
-# unfortunately because we are currently installing ubuntu-server as a task,
-# all of the recursive dependencies are marked as manually installed and are
-# not subject to autoremoval.  There is discussion of us stopping the use of
-# tasks in livecd-rootfs but in the meantime, we have to also explicitly
-# remove the packages providing the services
-_xchroot "$rootd" env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
-	apt-get -y autoremove --purge fwupd modemmanager udisks2
-
-if [ "${SUBPROJECT:-}" = minimized ]; then
-	# Remove various packages that we don't want in the minimized images.
-	# Some of these are tools that don't make sense by default
-	# non-interactively; some are libraries whose reverse-dependencies
-	# will have already been removed; open-vm-tools, it's a bug that this
-	# is in the common cloud seed because this should only be included
-	# in VMWare guest images, and we know none of the minimized images
-	# are targeted at VMWare.
-	_xchroot "${rootd}" env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
-		apt-mark auto '^lib.*' '^python*' vim-runtime 2>/dev/null
-	# FIXME: iso-codes is a dep of software-properties and shouldn't be
-	_xchroot "${rootd}" env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
-		apt-get -y autoremove --purge iso-codes xauth pastebinit \
-		plymouth open-vm-tools git git-man shared-mime-info vim vim-common \
-		console-setup ncurses-term tmux screen policykit-1 \
-		xdg-user-dirs less publicsuffix run-one apport-symptoms \
-		ubuntu-cloudimage-keyring file
-
-	_xchroot "${rootd}" apt clean
-fi
-
 #### END COMMON ARCH FUNCTIONS