Comment 1 for bug 236360

thank you for your bug report, you should maybe not start using unstable distributions so earlier in the cycle if you don't know how to use the package system and want to have something stable and not changing. the packaging tools have been changed in intrepid to install recommends by default now and that's why you get extra things installed, you can remove those once installed if you want or tweak the apt configuration to not install recommends, we will also review the recommends to not list things which are not really recommended, you started using intrepid really early which is good but that's an unstable distribution and work is going to be done there so don't expect it to be perfect right now, the recommends lists will be cleaned during the cycle, closing since that's not a bug