Comment # 8 on bug 1196547 from Richard Brown

(In reply to Alois Wohlschlager from comment #7)
> What about enabling recommends, but shipping targeted locks to prevent
> installation of the worst offenders by default? That's what I currently do
> on my MicroOS system, since no-recommends is too barebones, and with my
> approach I get the bloat down quite a bit (actually the current root
> snapshot for some reason uses *less* disk space than the one of a completely
> vanilla reference installation in a VM).

Locks are a terrible cludge that just result in broken systems

I'm all for installing all language patterns all the time, I'm not for
installing GB and GB of random junk alongside them

We should have this fixed in the install media somewhen soon..then we just need
to find a solution for pre-built images also