Re: Bug#4261: Ghostview and virtual package postscript_viewer

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> No, that isn't what should be done, or at least not the only thing.
> I'm on my way to produce a second posctscript-viewer (front-end to gs)
> called gv, that is in some ways much better than ghostview, though there
> are too many differences in the user interface to drop ghostview instead.

Yes, it _is_ what should be done.  "install-mime" handles multiple entries
for the same mime-type.  Thus, if both "ghostview" and "gv" get installed,
the user is given the choice of which is to have priority in the mailcap file.
Trust me, this will work.  It was designed to handle just this case.

Please see the "install-mime" man page for more information.

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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