As you can see from the bug history gnuplot is being installed by apt even though no packages which Depends on or Recommends on gnuplot are either directly or indirectly installed (based on binary package dependencies). In as described previously, 'aptitude why gnuplot' on the resulting system claims the reason that gnuplot was installed is that amanda-client Suggests it. While amanda-client *is* delibarately installed and does suggest gnuplot, there is no reason that a Suggests should automatically cause a package to be installed (that is no reason except, if it is possible to do so, explicitly enabling such behavior, which is not done in this case). For full details see the bug history from before assigned to apt. BTW sorry for the multiple attempts to get the reassign and summary to apt maintainers vs live maintainers right. Regards, Daniel
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