a 1.4 MB package recommended 230 MB of packages :|

[Lisi]

On Sunday 11 April 2010 20:45:16 Tom H wrote:
> Both Debian and Ubuntu and both apt-get and aptitude default to
> installing "recommends" unless you override it temporarily at the
> command or permanently (unless you override the override at the
> command) in /etc/apt/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/<file>.

I am running Lenny.  aptitude definitely _doesn't_ default to installing 
recommends.  I don't know about Squeeze and Sid; but Lenny is Debian, so the 
generalisation is clearly not always true.

Lisi