This turned out not to be an aptitude fault after all. As I've suffered this condition since the first few days of the gutsy development I started to wonder if 'something' had been left behind causing this strange behaviour. After some snooping the following was found:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01ubuntu Inside the 01ubuntu file were some directives which caused all meta packages to have their recommends dependencies installed by default no matter what apt-get or aptitude were instructed to do. Removing 01ubuntu cleared up the problem. Cheers, Craig -- [gutsy] Aptitude doesn't honour recommended packages properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128681 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
