[gentoo-dev] Re: mailbase ebuild

[Jerry A!]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:05:06AM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote:
: On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:41:57AM -0400, Jerry A! wrote:
: >On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 03:47:42AM -0600, Parag Mehta wrote:
: >: Hi jerry / Lamer
: >:
: >: the mailbase ebuild is missing the mailcap file in files directory.
:
: Well, if it's a webbrowser based file (which I don't believe ) then why
: is it called "mailcap"
:
: Perhaps you're thinking of mime.types.

No, I'm not.  Mailcap was only RFC 1524 until it started being bundled
with Mosaic (in the default location of /usr/local/lib/mosaic).

: Regardless it should be in base install and updated by packages that
: introduce the capabilities to handle mime mail attachments for the
: mailers (i.e. image viewers, document viewers etc)

I agree with you.  However, most modern day MTAs will also parse
mime.types.  There's no  reason to create redundant files.

        --Jerry

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