[Holger Levsen] > recommends are installed by default (and we dont change that > default), so I still fail to understand why recommends are not > enough. As far as I know, recommends are not installed by default by debian-installer in Lenny. Please let me know if this changed and I missed it. The quality of recommends in Debian packages were just not good enough in Lenny. It has since improved a lot. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen