Install Sierra without a recovery partition? How can I install macOS Sierra without a recovery partition?

I am installing into a virtual machine, and will make manual backups of the VM. I do no need or want the extra 5 gigs of the recovery partition and its copy of the Sierra installer app.
If you install Sierra and a Recovery partition is created, I suppose you could just delete the Recovery partition and expand the Sierra partition to include the freed space. The easiest way to delete a partition is with then third party command gdisk. The freed space can be recovered by using the diskutil command.