Re: Location of "mailcap" and "mime.types"

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

Ian Jackson:
   Conffiles should not be shared between packages - dpkg won't know
   which version is intended to be `canonical', and the user will get
   prompted a lot.

Of course, in theory, if dpkg kept around a copy of the variant that
each package povided the user wouldn't get prompted quite so much.

-- 
Raul