Comment 67 for bug 556372

Why has this been set to WONTFIX again? Has a consensus been reached already? From looking at the comments here, I doubt that. I still think "Depends" is too hard and think "Recommends" is a better suit for this. As APT::Install-Recommends=true is the default, nothing would change for the general users. Powerusers with need to the console can opt to uninstall it w/o breaking their system and w/o the "equivs" hack.