Bug#563204: Recommends is really too strong for os-prober

[Elliott Mitchell]

Commenting since the report still exists in the bug DB...

I've found `os-prober` often produces many false positive OS installation
detections.  As such I really find recommends too strong, simply
including during installation and then merely suggests would be better.

If someone removes it, likely that is due to not needing it and the
choice should be honored.

Worse, on VM systems searching for additional OS installations is a major
security risk due to potential for finding VMs instead of host.  If one
of those manages to boot on bare hardware, everything is compromised.

Producing messages during updates though is reasonable.  Just don't be
too pushy, even keeping recommends packages from being reinstalled
requires a careful eye.

Mostly documenting some people *really* don't want os-prober, even though
we are likely the minority.


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