On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:06:27PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: >> >> Just to present an example from Fedora: clamav within Fedora was and >> is considered rather cumbersome packaged and many users turn to 3rd >> party repos to get clamav installed. > > Actually, I stirred up a lot of muck not too long ago on a mailing list, > exactly on this topic. The way they package clamav is less than useful for > newbies and for those who just want to quickly enable a simple AV filter. > It does help those who need a complex, sophisticated, multi-component > setup. But those are exactly the people who don't need a lot of help, so > why target the package towards them? > > To become package maintainers - those lacking common sense need not apply. clamav is indeed agitating. I generally exclude it from being auto-updated because it always needs major hand-holding each time it seems. :) Simple things like the configuration file just having wrong entries in it (missing boolean values)... ya just never know! Getting off-topic now though I suppose. :) Ray