Bug#388290: more info on bogus recommends

[Per Olofsson <pelle@debian.org>]

Joey Hess:
> Per Olofsson wrote:
> > Aren't some of these recommended packages only alternatives? Are you
> > sure they will really be installed if run --with-recommends?
> 
> Probably only one from the set will be installed, for example in the
> case of the aspell dictionaries, it will probably pick and install a
> random one.

No, it won't. It will pick the first alternative (unless the
dependency was already satisfied).

I believe your list of packages is wrong, and the following one to be
more correct. It was generated by this command in a fresh chroot:

pkgs='~prequired ~pimportant ~pstandard ~t^desktop$'; \
	(aptitude -svy --without-recommends install $pkgs; \
	 aptitude -svy --with-recommends install $pkgs) \
	| grep ^Inst | sort | uniq -u | awk '{print $2}'

Here's the list:

aspell
aspell-en
bzip2
debconf-utils
esound-clients
fam
gcc
gcc-4.1
gimp-svg
gnome-icon-theme
gutenprint-locales
hicolor-icon-theme
libatk1.0-data
libc6-dev
libcroco3
libft-perl
libgcj7-awt
libgcj7-jar
libgda2-bin
libglib1.2
libglib2.0-data
libglib2.0-dev
libgnomevfs2-extra
libgsf-1-114
libgsf-1-common
libgtk2.0-bin
libmudflap0
libmudflap0-dev
libpaper-utils
libpcap0.8
libprinterconf0c2a
libprintsys
librsvg2-2
librsvg2-common
libsmbclient
libsnmpkit2c2a
libssp0
libtdb1
libttf2
linux-kernel-headers
linuxprinting.org-ppds
mdetect
nmap
pconf-detect
pkg-config
psfontmgr
python-imaging
python-reportlab
python-xml
samba-common
smbclient
tdb-dev
x-ttcidfont-conf
xml-core

-- 
Pelle