disable 'recommends by default' in server and cloud images

[Scott Moser]

In an effort to make Ubuntu Server images smaller, we'd like to disable 'recommends by default'.
In a cloud and server world, people say what they want.

For packages that drop out that we explicitly *do* want included, we can add them to the seed.

A seed is a cost we bear once; bloat is a cost ALL of our millions of
users bear EVERYWHERE. So let's carry the cost of a finer-grained seed
ourselves, everywhere please, and turn Recommends off by default everywhere.

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[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

I am going to mark this as fix-released. The minimal cloud images [1], introduced a couple years ago accomplish something similar.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Minimal