Comment 3 for bug 1096283

@ Dave (#1)
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends nautilus gives:
nautilus is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
(When constructing the master image for the netbooks, after installing nautilus we have manually purged all packages pulled in by nautilus which were not essential to nautilus (ie, which did not break nautilus).)

@ Jeremy (#2)
I take your point. But you do assume that users are sufficiently au fait with Zeitgeist to have the knowledge that they need to install these two separate helper programs (gnome-activity-journal and activity-log-manager) that are required (1) to see what it actually is that Zeitgeist collects about their activities and events, and (2) to be able to disable such information gathering and channelling. I tend to think that this is an unreasonable assumption.

In my view it would be better if the requirement to install such additional programs would be unnecessary by default, and that, instead, installing Zeitgeist and its components – and the consequences thereof – would have to be a conscious, deliberate, informed and well-understood choice.

Similarly for Brasero, opt-in rather than ex-post opt-out seems the more appropriate way when putting together systems. (Realistically in practice, which user actually fully knows and understands what redundant and/or undesired applications get pulled in by other applications.)