On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:51:37 +0100 (BST), G.W. Haywood wrote > Hi there, > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 Brian Morrison wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:59:29 +0100 G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Luca Gibelli wrote: > > > > > > > ... release candidate for 0.94. > > > > > > I started to download it, but when I saw that it was going to be just > > > under 20 megabytes I cancelled it. > > > > Well it's not *that* big! > > My point was that it's ten times as big as it should be and apparently > it's growing without bound. This is because it contains a database, > which is of course probably a useless copy of the one already on the > machine which will be running the new version of clamav. If it isn't, > that's most probably because it's out of date, and it will be deleted. > > It's insane. >
I agree with the sentiment, but it's not quite insane. I think it is quite reasonable to provide a complete package that will give reasonable protection straight "out of the box". Perhaps we could have two versions; one with a recent database, and one with an empty database. Then let the user decide which he requires. Cheers and thank for all the hard work. Bill -- Bill Maidment Maidment Enterprises Pty Ltd www.maidment.vu Consultant to Elgas Ltd Phone: 02 9904 3364 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
