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Thomas Ohligschläger (thohl) wrote : Recommended packages always installed

Binary package hint: aptitude

Aptitude version 0.4.9 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is installing always the recommended packages even when it is told not to do so. It is also not uninstalling them when it is told to do so. Suggested packages are not affected.
There is already a similar bug filed in Debian (bug #458189), which is even already patched in aptitude version 0.4.11. Here the reference for more details:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458189

This bug is hindering setting up a leaner version of Ubuntu by the method of uninstalling all only recommended (= not necessarily wanted) packages. It also installs significantly more packages than necessary leading to unnecessarily bigger Ubuntu installations wasting space on small systems and causing additionnally more load to the download servers.

Considering the criticism that 'the other operating system' has got for being too fat, this bug is worth patching in an LTS verison.

Thanks for good work over the years!