Kubuntu a dist in crisis?

[Nils Kassube]

Clay Weber wrote:
> A way to minimize this is to install packages with apt using the
> ''--no- install-recommends" flag. Even installing synaptic in Karmic
> pulls in a number of extra (and unneeded in KDE) stuff. I wonder if
> there is a way to specify this flag in apt's configuration somewhere,
> as well as what the consequences would be?

From <http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910>:

| set APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. Be aware
| that this may result in missing features in some programs.


Nils