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Hi all, |
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At the moment, several packages I can think of provide /etc/mime.types: |
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net-mail/metamail |
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net-mail/pine |
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app-misc/run-mailcap |
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app-misc/mime-types |
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Obviously, this isn't great. The plan net-mail have come up with is to amalgamate all |
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the current mime.types installed by these packages into one super-duper mime.types and |
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then put it in app-misc/mime-types. This has already been done with the help of Andrej |
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Kacian in bug 46476[1]. We then make app-misc/mime-types install this unified file, and |
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make all other packages that provide mime.types themselves RDEPEND on |
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app-misc/mime-types themselves. |
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This should be pretty trouble free as the different files don't really conflict with |
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each other, and there are unlikely to be any real bugs caused (after all, people have |
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been either keeping a permanent /etc/mime.types that is used by all packages or |
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overwriting it each time with etc-update or dispatch-conf). Also, finding packages that |
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will need to RDEPEND on it is simple, because they either depend on app-misc/mime-types |
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already or install it themselves. |
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So.. I would like two things. First of all, I'd really appreciate it if everyone |
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reading could run "equery belongs /etc/mime.types" and reply with anything that |
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*wasn't* included in the list at the start of this post. And, of course, I'd like to |
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know everyone's thoughts on this. |
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Thanks, |
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Tom |
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[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46476 |
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Tom Martin |
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Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer |
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