packages "install_standard" option breaks network functionality on GCE

[myhro]

Took a while to figure this out, but what I thought that was a problem with GCE tools, is actually caused by the "standard packages" installation done by tasksel. Quoting my comment in this issue on GoogleCloudPlatform's compute-image-packages, Can't boot from image generated by gcimagebundle:

... the tasksel install standard task removes some core network tools. It's clear if you run it as apt-get install $(tasksel --task-packages standard):

(...)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ifupdown iproute isc-dhcp-client
(...)

I've only noticed this behavior on GCE, but it is possible that it is affecting other providers as well.