include much needed antivirus products in FC2

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jan 6 20:23:19 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:04, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > No one is saying you can't do this! The only thing I've been saying is
> > that Antivirus for OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS does NOT belong in Core. It
> > should be in extras, certainly but not in core.
> 
> That doesn't really follow, though. There are many applications in Core
> which are there because they facilitate integration of Fedora into
> environments with legacy OSes -- rdesktop, samba, etc. AV's just another one 
> such app.
> 

rdesktop you can use with vnc on ANY platform. Samba has been in there
for a long time. AV depends on access to commercial virus definitions
iirc. I'd say that's a good reason not to include it.

And hell, there are N web browsers in FC1 does that mean we should add N
more?
No.

-sv






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