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  1. Bug #8896
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 8896

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote : Re: enable auto-install of recommends by default

Henrik Nilsen Omma said on 2007-04-03: (permalink)
> The debate auto-install of recommends is more of a policy issue than a bug.

It's not a policy issue - why main debian/ubuntu package manager, aptitude, installs recommended packages as default, but synaptic doesn't ? Please don't close this bug until it will be really fixed in synaptic.

There is no need for discuss about instaling recommended packages by default - all needed info about recommends field is in Debian policy:
( http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps ):

The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this
one in *all* but unusual installations.