Re: [orca-list] Difference between CID, Wheezy and Ubuntu

[Geoff Shang <geoff QuiteLikely com>]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:

> Good idea, I don't know if there is a configuration item not to install
> suggested packages though.

There is.  It's called Install-Recommends and it's enabled by default in 
Squeeze but wasn't in previous releases.

You can disable it by putting

APT::Install-Recommends "false";

in a file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d.  For example, I have it in 
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99disable-recommends

HTH,
Geoff.