This is a horrible horrible design, look at a package like collectd for example - it ships with loads of plugins and thus the package recommends the components for all these plugins. An example is the memcached plugin which ships with collectd, this recommends libmemcache which recommends memcached. So just for installing collectd you've ended up with memcached on your machine.
On a separate note, memcached ships open by default so you now have a public facing memcached server on your machine which people can insert random keys into. Awesome, all because I installed a totally unrelated tool - collectd. I'm doubtful anyone is ever going to use every single plugin collectd supports - so why are you forcing all those applications on them? Please fix this, recommendations and suggestions are just that - recommendations not dependencies so please don't treat them as such. -- wish: APT::Install-Recommends "false" in server install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316472 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
