Re: MIME support

[Jeffrey Ebert <jebert@finland.it.earthlink.net>]

Brian C. White wrote:
> I'm thinking of adding a script similar to "install-info" that will allow
> new packages to add details about themselves to the "mailcap" file.  Thus,
> the 'xv' package could install itself as a viewer for ".gif", ".jpg", and
> other files.

This should be optional at install time. Even better, the script can parse
the mailcap file and ask you if you want to replace one viewer or editor with
another. Otherwise, two image viewers, such as xv and xloadimage would have
to conflict, and I don't think we want that.

By the way, this is the only entry that I needed to add to my mime.types:

# Here are some of my own:
x-world/x-vrml                 vrm vrml wrl

I think we'll be safe treating mime.types as a traditional configuration
file. On the other hand, configuration files that are simply lists should
have an option like: "Do you want to merge your version and the package
maintainer's version of this file?" I often find myself doing that by hand.

-- 
Jeff Ebert
jebert@earthlink.net
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