[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#624380: Bug#624380: clamav-base: Please package huge example files seperately or move them to clamav-docs

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Axel Beckert said:
> With the exception of the example configuration file, those files are
> probably not needed by the vast majority of the clamav users, yet all of
> them have to waste those 26 MB of disk space and download time when
> installing e.g. freshclam which has a hard dependency.

Hi,

We've been around this before, unfortunately.  The problem is that we
can't require a network connection for users installing the software,
and without these files, the dependencies can end up installing
non-functional software.  I'm afraid I don't see any way out of this
one.

Cheers,
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