On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:01:24AM -0400, Jim Maul said: > Keep in mind while i agree the instructions are a little messed up for > the current versions of the software it uses, the instructions are the > way they are to correct problems and certain small errors that occured > in older versions of the sofware. Basically the instructions are > outdated in my opinion. I dont believe the reason for the > clamscan/clamdscan linking is still a valid reason as well as other > "workarounds" that were put in place. The instructions should be updated. > > With that said, the person, yes, only 1 person, who created qmr is > obviously busy and this is not his full time job. I think it is great > that he has taken this amount of time out of his everyday life to > provide this great service for everyone....cut him some slack will ya? > Saying "for no reason other than ignorance and gross stupidity" is quite > incorrect and even downright rude. You have NO idea why he set up the > instructions this way and you yourself are making huge assumptions. If > you have some constructive criticism here im sure it would be > appreciated but you previous comments were IMO not helpful at all.
Bear in mind that this is how most packaging is done. I am a single person, handling most of the work for clamav for Debian (Thomas, hi! - does help me from time to time, but he has a full life as well). I doubt that the other packagers are working in teams to get clam into their distributions either. I grant you, each of us doing this work probably has bugs in our work - we are all human, after all. Just look at the debian BTS page for clamav - it'll give you an idea of the bugs I've introduced :) All that being said, I do not like packagers that break upstream assumptions more than necessary - replacing clamdscan with clamscan is just silly. Leave it alone, and put a big fat warning CLAMD HAS HAD STABILITY PROBLEMS - I RECOMMEND CLAMSCAN!!! all over the webpage. I have notes about stability problems in the README where appropriate. I fell that trying to obscure the normal functionality of a software package in order to make something point-n-click is doing no one a service, and making it harder to debug the real problems in it. Thanks for listening, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Conscience is a mother-in-law whose | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | visit never ends. -- H. L. Mencken | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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