Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

Thu Apr 23 19:08:19 UTC 2009

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:41:07 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Michael S. Gilbert wrote:
> > recommends are now automatically installed, so this shouldn't happen too
> > often.
> 
> Except for new installs AFAIK.

i presume that a new install via debian-installer does not circumvent
apt's default behavior.  is there any reason to think that this is not
the case?

fyi, "recommends installed by default" became apt's default behavior on
Oct 1 2007.  see debian-devel-announce message [1].

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/243939/