diff --git a/python-kombu.changes b/python-kombu.changes
index b58b69d..0e86824 100644
--- a/python-kombu.changes
+++ b/python-kombu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb 19 15:18:32 UTC 2014 - speilicke@suse.com
+
+- Demote recommends back to suggests, it is really sufficent to document
+  the possible backend options. But we want to avoid they're installed
+  accidentally.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jan 21 13:48:22 UTC 2014 - dmueller@suse.com
 
diff --git a/python-kombu.spec b/python-kombu.spec
index fa1ea61..b966345 100644
--- a/python-kombu.spec
+++ b/python-kombu.spec
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ Requires:       python-ordereddict
 %endif
 Requires:       python-amqp >= 1.4.0
 Requires:       python-anyjson >= 0.3.3
-Recommends:     couchdb
-Recommends:     mongodb
-Recommends:     rabbitmq-server
+Suggests:       couchdb
+Suggests:       mongodb
+Suggests:       rabbitmq-server
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}