Changing the bug to focus on: "Is there any way that the debian-installer can be told *not* to install recommends yet apt is configured to install recommends by default?", as the rest of it is intentional.
Changing the bug to focus on: "Is there any way that the debian-installer can be told *not* to install
recommends yet apt is configured to install recommends by default?", as the rest of it is intentional.