Comment 3 for bug 270512

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Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote :

Note that dropping it to a "Suggests" doesn't prevent it from being installed by other packages. If you install a GUI on the server then xauth should get installed as a dependency of the X server.

The goal is to mimic what was done in hardy, where recommends were not installed by default : the minimal and standard seeds then did not contain any X libraries.

http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.hardy/minimal
http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.hardy/standard

Contrast that with the now-heavier minimal and standard seeds in intrepid:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.intrepid/minimal
http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.intrepid/standard