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On Sunday 08 August 2004 23:19 CET Tom Martin wrote: |
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> At the moment, several packages I can think of provide /etc/mime.types: |
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> Obviously, this isn't great. The plan net-mail have come up with is to |
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> amalgamate all the current mime.types installed by these packages into |
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> one super-duper mime.types and then put it in app-misc/mime-types. [...] |
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I'm not sure, but this might be what the Shared MIME Database project [2] is |
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heading for. They are currently seeking maintainers who keep that stuff |
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up-to-date. |
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> So.. I would like two things. First of all, I'd really appreciate it if |
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> everyone reading could run "equery belongs /etc/mime.types" and reply |
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> with anything that *wasn't* included in the list at the start of this |
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> post. And, of course, I'd like to know everyone's thoughts on this. |
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qtopia-desktop-bin additionally installs its own database in /opt: |
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app-pda/qtopia-desktop-bin-1.7.0 (/opt/Qtopia/qtopiadesktop/etc/mime.types) |
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Cheers, |
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Malte |
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[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec |
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[SGT] Simon G. Tatham: "How to Report Bugs Effectively" |
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<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html> |
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[ESR] Eric S. Raymond: "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" |
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<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> |
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