diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c2b14c84..da65b793 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ livecd-rootfs (2.477) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Remove boot/grub leftovers from our root squashfs, left behind after
     grub purge.
   * Remove apt, debconf cruft files from /var/cache in all our livefses.
+  * When building minimized cloud images, remove various packages that we
+    don't want installed by default.  Some are tools that aren't needed for
+    non-interactive use; some are libraries whose reverse-dependencies
+    will have already been removed; and one, open-vm-tools, should only be
+    included in images that are targeted to VMWare (which is not the case
+    for any of the current minimal images), rather than being included
+    directly in the cloud-image seed.
 
  -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:18:45 -0400
 
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/999-cpc-fixes.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
index 8b22fc8e..9dfbdcaa 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/999-cpc-fixes.chroot
@@ -136,6 +136,22 @@ if [ -L "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img" ] && [ ! -e "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img" ]; the
 	rm "${rootd}/boot/initrd.img"
 fi
 
+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-get -y purge iso-codes xauth pastebinit \
+		plymouth open-vm-tools git libdumbnet1 libmspack0 libxmlsec1 \
+		libxmlsec1-openssl libxslt1.1
+	_xchroot "${rootd}" env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
+		apt-get -y autoremove --purge
+fi
+
 #### END COMMON ARCH FUNCTIONS