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  1. Bug #8896
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 8896

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

Comment #8 From Michael Vogt:
> No, it's too late at this stage and it was not really discussed at the last
> developers submit. We should set it onto the agenda for the next submit though,
> it's a change that should be done very early in the release cycle.

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.

aptitude follows Debian policy, so, why synaptic shouldn't follow ?