Bug#844300: nvidia-driver-libs:amd64: upgrade failure due to dependency issue

[Diederik de Haas]

On maandag 14 november 2016 15:12:14 CET Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> aptitude often ignores Recommends. So, you should not rely on it.

That's an incorrect statement.
Aptitude, and I think apt too, doesn't automatically install _new_ recommended 
packages for an already installed package. 
It does report "The following recommended packages will not be installed" (or 
sth along those lines). But that's far from ignoring it.
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