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 that's most probably because it's out of date, and it will be deleted.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
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Bill Maidment
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