Seems that this did not make it into edgy. What is the current status? Can we get synaptic and the add programs applet to prompt to install the recommended and suggested packages? Rather than silently install Recommended packages, I think it should prompt the user for Recommended and Suggested packages, informing them that the former are strongly recommended, and the latter that they might find interesting, with default action being to install the former, but not the latter.
This bit me the other day when I installed grip from the add applications applet and it failed to run properly out of the box because to encode, it requires vorbis-tools. -- enable auto-install of recommends by default https://launchpad.net/bugs/8896 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
