[Mimedefang] building Mdf rpm - why are antivirus checks disabled by default?

[David F. Skoll]

Gary Funck wrote:

> I was curious as to why this option was disabled
> by default in the RPM spec.?

Because the goal is to build a binary RPM that can run anwywhere.
The system it runs on might not have any of the scanners that
were present on the system it was built on.

You can always enable virus scanners at run-time in your filter by
setting the various $Feature{'Virus:Foobar'} hash entries.

Regards,

David.