[Gnumed-devel] Synaptic bug fails to add recommended dependencies

[James Busser]

was Advisability of NTP to maintain date and time settings

On 2-Sep-08, at 11:19 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:41:20PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
>
> > Given that GNUmed is to be used clinically, shall we recommend that
> > people use NTP to keep synchronized with internet servers, to avoid
> > unmantained dates & times?
>
> The Debian package already does so:

Hmm... in lenny, despite that Synaptic by default has a preference  
set for

        "Consider recommended packages as dependencies"

ntp was not installed. This seems a Synaptic bug as lodged in  
November 2007, in the meantime those who wish Synaptic to *DO*  
consider recommended packages as dependencies would need to add the  
following line to apt.conf

        APT::Install-Recommends "true";

bug reference:

        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440027