Re: Bug#458189: how to not install recommended packages?
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:
> * Rewrite the aptitude code so that Recommends-Important
> short-circuits the logic if it's set to false (for backwards
> compatibility), and otherwise we fall back to IsImportantDep.
>
> The problem here is that using aptitude with an older apt will
> result in recommends not being installed by default. Given that
> aptitude already needs a fairly recent apt, though, I'm not sure
> this is a real concern.
>
> I think this option is really the best choice.
This does looks to be the right thing to do and it could also drop
some code from aptitude since it's not done by the library.
+1
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