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From: Andrej Kacian <ticho@××××××.sk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of /etc/mime.types
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:49:44
Message-Id: 20040811084938.36577d68@thelair
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of /etc/mime.types by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 06:21:14 -0700
2 "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 10:19:37PM +0100, Tom Martin wrote:
5 > > So.. I would like two things. First of all, I'd really appreciate it if
6 > > everyone reading could run "equery belongs /etc/mime.types" and reply with
7 > > anything that*wasn't* included in the list at the start of this post. And,
8 > > of course, I'd like to know everyone's thoughts on this.
9 > All copies of mime.types that follow the correct format should definetly
10 > be unified to a single copy.
11 >
12 > More duplicates of mime.types, but in different places:
13 > /etc/mutt/mime.types - mail-client/mutt
14 > /etc/apache2/conf/mime.types - net-www/apache
15 > /etc/boa/mime.types - www-servers/boa
16
17 These packages you mentioned could be changed so their arbitrary mime.types
18 files are symlinked to main, /etc/mime.types, unless it breaks them (in-code
19 check if the file is regular, or something along those lines).
20
21 These are not immediate problem though, because they do not overwrite file
22 provided by other application.
23
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