Comment 3 for bug 159133

After thinking about it some more I guess I must be confused as to why we are installing Recommends by default at all if we don't want packages that should be in the "Recommends" line to be in recommends any more due to recommends being installed by default.

"Recommends: Used for packages that are highly recommended and usually are installed with the package. Some package managers, most notably aptitude, automatically install Recommended packages."

The openoffice.org package is a meta-package that is really intended to install all of openoffice.org so (imho) really all of openoffice.org should be in the Depends line with the exception of translations. There was talk in the past to demote openoffice.org-base out of the Depends line (iirc). I think the real solution should be not to install 'openoffice.org' using the installer if we don't want the user to have all of openoffice.org (wrt filters etc since the user won't normally find these on their own). However, I do agree that the packages other than openoffice.org like openoffice.org-common (wrt styles) shouldn't have these Recommends so that it is easier to separate out what doesn't need to be installed.

I am open to other ideas/discussion about this topic. And I do agree there is a real bug here in that some of the packages (other than the 'openoffice.org' meta-package) have Recommends that should be demoted.

I hope the above made sense to more than just me... :-)