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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2016-11-14 15:52:28 +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> 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.

No, I do not always get these reports. Here I didn't even have any
report that a recommended package would be removed: aptitude just
said that <some list of packages> would be removed because they are
no longer used.

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