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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