Bug#215946: /etc/kde3/magic/*.magic
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:21:09PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 03:18:16PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > > What /etc/mime-magic file, you mean the one that gnome
> > > provides?[1] Why doesn't gnome use the KDE one? :P All I see that
> > > is standard is a /etc/magic file which does not include anything
> > > that was directly built into the file(1) utility, which happens to
> > > mean /etc/magic is empty.
> >
> > Then why not add mime-magic support to mime-types and share that
> > between all the program that need it instead of replicating the
> > feature all along ?
>
> It would probably make more sense to have file ship its magic file
> (the one with the actual data in it). If file provided its magic file
> then both Gnome and KDE could send their changes to upstream and
> everyone benefit from it, instead of just forking it.
Isn't this what's in the /usr/share/misc/file directory?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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