apt now installs recommends by default

[Mario Limonciello]

Przemys?aw Kulczycki wrote:
> 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.
This is why mvo did this so early in the cycle.  There should be
sufficient time to clean this up now in Intrepid.

-- 
Mario Limonciello
superm1 at ubuntu.com


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