Michael Vogt has implemented the infrastructure for this, and I've committed some seed changes corresponding to the duplicates of this bug report and other discussions on this topic:
------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 799 committer: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> branch nick: edgy timestamp: Fri 2006-09-08 13:47:25 -0700 message: Convert more packages to recommends: - desktop/gnome-screensaver: allow xscreensaver to be used (bug #42668) - standard/openssh-client: allow for ssh-krb5 to be used (bug #52609) - standard/mtr-tiny: allow mtr to be removed (bug #11874) ------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 798 committer: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> branch nick: edgy timestamp: Fri 2006-09-08 13:39:21 -0700 message: Convert more desktop stuff to recommends: - Daemons that some users prefer to remove (powernowd, bluez-*, hplip - i18n (scim, non-Latin fonts) - Accessibility packages - gcc, make - example-content They'll take effect with the next metapackage update. ** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Assignee: Colin Watson => Michael Vogt ** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- 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