Comment 3 for bug 102507

this has been done in feisty !!! these fonts are listed as recommends !
to sojourner : synaptic and apt do not allow you to remove recommended packages, it treats them as dependecies, however they can be removed (or never installed) with aptitude ! Or like avb hinted at, you can make apt (and synaptic?) treat recommends as recommends by editing configuration files.