Installing with recommended packages does not query down anymore on already installed dependencies

[Removed by request]

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with apt 1.2.10ubuntu1 and on installing with recommended packages for example by using the option "--install-recommends" normally apt installs the recommended packages of the specified package and the recommended packages of the dependencies at any level. But at the latter I'm noticing if such a dependency was already installed without installing its recommended packages apt will not query anymore down to the recommended packages of this dependency. This behavior does also break packages that provide only possibly too minimal dependencies and relying more that the user also installs the recommended packages like in this case: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1571098

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This is by design. You made a conscious choice not to install those recommends earlier, so apt is not suddenly going to install them for you.