I need to configure iptables manually and save and restore the rules using iptables-persistent package. so I don't want ufw anymore.

I can simply disable it. but many chains are exists in iptables rules dump, and I do not want to see them.

:INPUT ACCEPT [593:73026]

:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]

:OUTPUT ACCEPT [449:94341]

:ufw-after-forward - [0:0]

:ufw-after-input - [0:0]

:ufw-after-logging-forward - [0:0]

:ufw-after-logging-input - [0:0]

:ufw-after-logging-output - [0:0]

:ufw-after-output - [0:0]

:ufw-before-forward - [0:0]

:ufw-before-input - [0:0]

:ufw-before-logging-forward - [0:0]

:ufw-before-logging-input - [0:0]

:ufw-before-logging-output - [0:0]

:ufw-before-output - [0:0]

:ufw-reject-forward - [0:0]

:ufw-reject-input - [0:0]

:ufw-reject-output - [0:0]

:ufw-track-input - [0:0]

:ufw-track-output - [0:0]

-A INPUT -j ufw-before-logging-input

-A INPUT -j ufw-before-input

-A INPUT -j ufw-after-input

-A INPUT -j ufw-after-logging-input

-A INPUT -j ufw-reject-input

-A INPUT -j ufw-track-input

-A FORWARD -j ufw-before-logging-forward

-A FORWARD -j ufw-before-forward

-A FORWARD -j ufw-after-forward

-A FORWARD -j ufw-after-logging-forward

-A FORWARD -j ufw-reject-forward

-A OUTPUT -j ufw-before-logging-output

-A OUTPUT -j ufw-before-output

-A OUTPUT -j ufw-after-output

-A OUTPUT -j ufw-after-logging-output

-A OUTPUT -j ufw-reject-output

-A OUTPUT -j ufw-track-output

COMMIT

# Completed on Sat Mar 30 07:26:41 2013

But I just need to know, can I completely uninstall UFW or not ?