From debian-devel  Wed Sep 27 14:28:00 2017
From: Marcel Partap <mpartap () gmx ! net>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:28:00 +0000
To: debian-devel
Subject: debian/control file: how to selectively suppress recommends?
Message-Id: <70161422-b67c-8fc1-31f4-6a5b84799861 () gmx ! net>
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Dear fellow Debianauts,
right now I am in the process of migrating my selection of manually installed packages to a freshly debootstrapped install using a set of meta-packages built with equivs. While that works nice and well, in some instances, I would like to limit the number of recommends being pulled in, without turning recommends off completely (the meta-packages themselves use Recommends:dependencies). So the --no-install-recommends parameter or APT::Install-Recommends "0" are of no help in this case.
Any ideas how to block installation of only some packages' recommendations?

#Best Regards/Marcel Partap