On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Graham Murray wrote:
Well, amavis requires a commercial package (AntiVir), which we're not allowed to re-distribute. As amavis has an dependency on antivir, it's missing on the ftp-version. It's that simple :)
As Amavis can use any of a number of anti-virus (or spam) scanners, why does it need to have a dependency on antivir?
Well, then people will install AMaViS via YaST2 ([x] enable virus scanning, YaST2 mail module) and complain to our support that it won't work at all as it doesn't stop any virus. Believe me, (most) people simply do not read any documentation nor do they check any log file. And AntVir/X is currently the only virus scanner we ship and we simply can not ship all dozen virus scanners for Linux :) best regards, Rainer Link (SuSE Labs) -- Rainer Link | SuSE Linux AG - The Linux Experts link@suse.de | Developer of A Mail Virus Scanner (www.amavis.org) www.suse.de | Founder OpenAntiVirus Project (www.openantivirus.org)