diff --git a/xmlto.changes b/xmlto.changes
index 2b68c9e..bc3d2af 100644
--- a/xmlto.changes
+++ b/xmlto.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 18 15:42:45 UTC 2019 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
+
+- Suggest instead of recommend texlive: most users are not
+  interested in texlive specific tooling- unless they install
+  texlive. xmlto is also useful without the texlice stack. So
+  instead of recommending (and this installing by default)
+  textlive, we switch to suggesting it.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Mar  6 09:45:26 UTC 2019 - Martin Pluskal <mpluskal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/xmlto.spec b/xmlto.spec
index ff1af0c..628d6af 100644
--- a/xmlto.spec
+++ b/xmlto.spec
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ BuildRequires:  sgml-skel
 Requires:       docbook-xsl-stylesheets >= 1.56.0
 Requires:       docbook_4
 Requires:       libxslt-tools
-# For full functionality, we need passivetex.
-Recommends:     texlive-xmltex >= 2007
+# For full functionality, we need passivetex; but since most users are not happy with
+# getting texlive installed, we only suggest it.
+Suggests:      texlive-xmltex >= 2007
 
 %description
 This is a package for converting XML files to various formats using XSL