diff --git a/python-matplotlib.changes b/python-matplotlib.changes
index 7270106..f029da0 100644
--- a/python-matplotlib.changes
+++ b/python-matplotlib.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Sep 17 15:23:25 UTC 2014 - jmatejek@suse.com
+
+- downgrade Recommends for texlive (and other big packages) to Suggests
+  (this means texlive is not pulled in by default zypper settings)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep 10 10:52:26 UTC 2014 - toddrme2178@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/python-matplotlib.spec b/python-matplotlib.spec
index 0c93a02..8a78e7f 100644
--- a/python-matplotlib.spec
+++ b/python-matplotlib.spec
@@ -95,15 +95,15 @@ Requires:       python-pyparsing >= 1.5.6
 Requires:       python-pytz
 Requires:       python-six >= 1.3
 Recommends:     ghostscript
-Recommends:     inkscape
 Recommends:     libxml2-tools
 Recommends:     python-Pillow
 Recommends:     poppler-tools
 Recommends:     python-matplotlib-tk
-Recommends:     texlive-dvipng
-Recommends:     texlive-latex
-Recommends:     texlive-sfmath
-Recommends:     texlive-tex
+Suggests:       inkscape
+Suggests:       texlive-dvipng
+Suggests:       texlive-latex
+Suggests:       texlive-sfmath
+Suggests:       texlive-tex
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
 %endif