Re: Proposal for adding a field in packages descriptions

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Sylvain Joyeux writes:

> I'm currently writing aimed at integrating APT in KDE (the first
> step was the apt:/ kio). While doing that, I had an idea. (yeah, it
> happens :p) We could add Mime: fields in package descriptions which
> will describe what file type the package is able to handle (no field
> meaning that it is not a file handling library for instance). This
> would have two advantages:
> - for programmers, to quickly find libraries able to handle a
> 	  certain kind
> of files
> - for desktop users: when no application installed is able to open a
> 	  given
> file, the environment will be able to ask the user what program he
> wants to install to open it.

No offence intended at all, but you should first read up on how the
debian mime system works, before trying to improve it.

cheers
domi