On 07-03-2010 01:19:49 -0600, Dale wrote: > Fabian Groffen wrote: > > # Fabian Groffen<grob...@gentoo.org> (06 Mar 2010) > > # Masked for security issues and discontinued interest from upstream to > > # support non-Windows platforms. Bug #233928 > > # Pending removal on April 6, 2010 > > app-antivirus/f-prot > > I use f-prot once in a blue moon and have it installed. While I won't > miss it, I went to the website out of curiosity. They *claim* to have > released version 6, which is currently in the tree and is the same > version for windoze. I did read where they are cutting off windoze 98, > ME and such. I didn't see any mention of stopping Linux. > > Am I correct to assume that someone has direct contact with them and > they said they are not fixing Linux issues?
The problem is that the security fixes are in 6.0.9+, whereas the highest version for Linux (x86) is 6.0.3. Look at this list: http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/ You can see that for them 64-bit (amd64) is even less important than x86. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
