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Re: How to build a package which can be included in MIME support



On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:56:58PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> Andreas Tille <tille@physik.uni-halle.de> writes:
> >On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> >> reasonable priority option for each of your mailcap entries.
> >How to decide, which priority is "reasonable"?  Any hints?
> 
> Assuming the user has all the relevant packages installed, how is he
> likely to rank them in displaying the given type of image?  For
> example, xv is generally more featureful than xli, so I gave the
> latter a below-average priority.

OTOH, xv is (IIRC) non-free; depending on your point of view, xli should
be higher priority. But then if you've installed xv, it makes sense to use it.


Hamish
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