Hi mwolson: In apt, "Recommends" denotes quite a strong dependency. For
example, the Debian Policy Manual section 7.2 says:
`Recommends':
This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found
together with this one in all but unusual installations.
All the modern apt frontends (synaptic, aptitude in both command-line "aptitude
install some-package" mode and curses mode, etc.) pull in Recommends
automatically. Apt-get when run from the command line does not, unfortunately,
but IMO Depends still would be inappropriate here. If used, Ubuntu would
forbid people from uninstalling emacs21-common-non-dfsg for any reason, e.g. to
save on disk space in constrained environments.
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