Comment 6 for bug 1022232

And --no-install-recommends does this:

apt-get install --no-install-recommends boinc-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libcurl3 libxss1 x11-common
Suggested packages:
  boinc-app-seti boinc-manager x11-xserver-utils libcuda1 libcuda1-ia32
Recommended packages:
  ia32-libs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  boinc-client libcurl3 libxss1 x11-common
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/868 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,828 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package libcurl3.
(Reading database ... 30303 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libcurl3 (from .../libcurl3_7.22.0-3ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package x11-common.
Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_1%3a7.6+12ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libxss1.
Unpacking libxss1 (from .../libxss1_1%3a1.2.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package boinc-client.
Unpacking boinc-client (from .../boinc-client_7.0.24+dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libcurl3 (7.22.0-3ubuntu4) ...
Setting up x11-common (1:7.6+12ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libxss1 (1:1.2.1-2) ...
Setting up boinc-client (7.0.24+dfsg-1) ...
update-rc.d: warning: boinc-client start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do not match LSB Default-Start values (4 5)
update-rc.d: warning: boinc-client stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (0 1 2 3 6)
 * Starting BOINC core client: boinc [ OK ]
 * Setting up scheduling for BOINC core client and children: [ OK ]
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

So, much better.