FYI, the supporting infrastructure needed in the packaging system to improve this situation is being worked on here;
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/recommends-support ** Bug 42668 has been marked a duplicate of this bug ** Bug 52609 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- ubuntu-meta metapackages could be more flexible https://launchpad.net/bugs/11381 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
