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Virex 7.2 Hazardous to Fink's Health

Posted by pudge on from the danger-will-robinson dept.

Gorgonzola writes "It was reported that Virex 7.2 and Fink were conflicting, it turned out that Virex 7.2 was overwriting libraries in Fink's default directory, thus hosing Fink for those who had it installed, and preventing Fink from installing for future users. Also, one user pointed out that of Virux's included packages, several (CURL, OpenSSL, and DLCompat) had license terms that Virex was ignoring." It is strongly recommended you don't install Virex 7.2 until this issue is resolved.

3 of 36 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Commercialism gone bad. by sparkleytone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, lemme tell you how much a company that isn't Microsoft would WANT to break software on the computer it is being installed on. It wouldn't, plain and simple. Users have a funny way of bitching REALLY hard when new software breaks their currently installed software. Therefore companies don't want to break shit. Stop with the bullshit 'Apple is evil' trolling in disguise.

  2. Re:Viruses on OSX??? by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I asked this on macslash too and nobody gave an answer - can anybody name a single OS X virus or worm that a tool like Virex actually prevents? Why do I want to waste my time scanning for Windows viruses that won't hurt my machine and won't be transmitted to other machines unless I am enough of a moron to forward random .vbs files from emails asking for advice or offering to play a very excite game? Word macro viruses exist but it's easier to turn off macros in word than to scan every document. Why would anyone want to install Virex at all? Is it just for the psychological comfort of seeing a program tell you your system is safe?

  3. Why /sw? by iso · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why does Fink install itself in /sw? This is not the place for 3rd-party add-ons. It's completely non-standard and confusing.

    Fink should install itself into /usr/local/fink. Why doesn't it? And please do not point me towards the Fink FAQ--this only refers to installing in /usr/local (fine, a bad idea), but neverthelss, /sw should not be the alternative. /usr/local/fink with directories like /usr/local/fink/bin and /usr/local/fink/lib would be a considerably more Unix-consistent place to put these files.

    The directory /sw is a particularly bad name too, as nowhere in the name does it associate itself with fink--i.e., the software that put the directory there. plus, if I have /usr on a separate partition for all user-installed software, I want the fink stuff to go there too!

    - j