apt now installs recommends by default

[Przemysław Kulczycki]

Michael Vogt pisze:
> Hi,
> 
> with the last apt upload to intrepid I changed the default policy of
> apt to install recommends by default (packages listed in the
> "Recommends" field in debian/control). We follow debian here who
> changed this default back in October.
(...)
> Because it only affects new package installs on your currently
> installed packages nothing changes. If you want to see what would
> change if you had a system with --install-recommends please run:
> 
> # apt-get install --fix-policy --install-recommends
> 
(...)
> For areas were this change is problematic I would recommend to run
> apt-get with --no-install-recomments (e.g. the ubuntu-vm-builder).
> 
> We should also clean up recommends were appropriate and downgrade them
> to suggests and sent the patches debian.

I've just tried to run --install-recommends on my Gutsy install and 
here's what it wanted to install:

   abiword-help amule-utils aptitude-doc-en arj automake1.4 bsh-gcj
   ca-certificates cdda2wav daemon debconf-utils debootstrap dmsetup 
dvipdfmx
   dvipng esound-clients exim4 exim4-base exim4-config 
exim4-daemon-light exiv2
   festival festlex-cmu festlex-poslex festvox-kallpc16k freepats 
gda2-postgres
   gimp-gnomevfs gnome-do-plugin-rhythmbox gnome-do-plugins
   gnome-games-extra-data gsfonts-x11 gutenprint-locales hpijs-ppds 
hplip-gui
   im-switch jackd kamera kcontrol kdebase-data kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
   kdm-kde4 kdvi kfind kghostview kicker kmplayer-konq-plugins konqueror
   kregexpeditor kviewshell latex-beamer latex-xcolor latex-xft-fonts 
libakode2
   libarts1-akode libarts1-mpeglib libatk1.0-data libck-connector0
   libclass-accessor-perl libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libcompress-zlib-perl
   libconvert-asn1-perl libcrypt-smbhash-perl libdeskbar-tracker
   libdigest-md4-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libestools1.2 libfont-afm-perl
   libft-perl libgcj8-1-awt libgcj8-jar libgd2-xpm libgda2-3 libgda2-bin
   libgda2-common libgda3-bin libggi-target-x libglib2.0-data libgpod-common
   libhtml-format-perl libhtml-template-perl libio-compress-base-perl
   libio-compress-zlib-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libio-string-perl
   libipc-signal-perl libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libjcode-pm-perl libjpeg-progs
   libkcddb1 libmail-sendmail-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-types-perl
   libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev libnet-ldap-perl libnet-ssleay-perl
   libnotify-bin libpam-ck-connector libparse-debianchangelog-perl 
libplot2c2
   libproc-waitstat-perl libpstoedit0c2a libqt3-compat-headers
   libterm-readline-gnu-perl libtie-ixhash-perl libtimedate-perl libtool
   libttf2 libunicode-map-perl libunicode-map8-perl libunicode-maputf8-perl
   libunicode-string-perl libvdeplug2 libvisual-0.4-plugins libwmf-bin
   libwv-1.2-3 libxalan2-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj 
libxml-libxml-common-perl
   libxml-libxml-perl libxml-namespacesupport-perl libxml-sax-perl
   libxml-simple-perl libxml-xpath-perl lmodern lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx
   lsb-desktop lsb-graphics lzop mailx mdetect menu menu-xdg mime-construct
   mpeglib mtools ncompress ncurses-term openoffice.org-filter-binfilter
   openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-officebean
   openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal
   openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-industrial
   openoffice.org-style-tango oss-compat patchutils pax perl-doc perl-suid
   perl-tk perlmagick pgf planetpenguin-racer-extras preview-latex-style
   prosper psfontmgr pstoedit psutils python-beagle python-cddb python-gamin
   python-gpod python-louie python-lxml python-numpy python-numpy-dev
   python-reportlab qca-tls qjackctl qt4-designer qt4-dev-tools qt4-doc
   raptor-utils redland-utils sane-utils sdparm sharutils smbldap-tools
   tetex-bin tetex-extra texlive texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-font-utils
   texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-extra
   texlive-generic-recommended texlive-lang-croatian texlive-lang-cyrillic
   texlive-lang-czechslovak texlive-lang-danish texlive-lang-dutch
   texlive-lang-finnish texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-german
   texlive-lang-greek texlive-lang-hungarian texlive-lang-italian
   texlive-lang-latin texlive-lang-mongolian texlive-lang-norwegian
   texlive-lang-other texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-spanish
   texlive-lang-swedish texlive-lang-vietnamese texlive-latex-extra
   texlive-latex-recommended texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures
   texlive-pstricks texlive-publishers texpower texpower-manual timidity 
tipa
   tracker tracker-search-tool tracker-utils transfig ubuntu-sounds 
unace untex
   vcdimager vde2 videolan-doc wv xli xscreensaver xserver-xephyr

That's a lot of stuff. I don't know what pulls them, but it's definitely 
too much. I didn't check it on hardy.
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