> Sure, which is why I refer to users as opposed to developers :) With > dselect you at least get the recommended behaviour by default. Oh, and having said that, I should add that I as a developer also use dselect as my package management tool of choice, and that I generally install all recommends unless I have a very good reason not to. Recommends are generally not made frivolously (or at least they're not supposed to be). Ben.