Why has ClamAV just been installed on my 12.10 system?

[Colin Law]

On 20 September 2013 11:09, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:05:35AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 19 September 2013 11:26, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> > For some reason ClamAV has recently been installed on my 12.10 system, I
>> > guess it must be because of something I've installed recently but I
>> > can't think what really.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any idea what might install ClamAV as a dependency?
>>
>> If you try and uninstall ClamAV I think it will tell you which package wants it.
>>
> I just did that and it didn't take anything with it at all.

If installing something else had installed ClamAV as a necessary
dependent then I think it would not have let you uninstall ClamAV as
that would have broken the other package.  If ClamAV had been
installed with another package as a "recommends" however then it would
let you uninstall it.

Colin