Re: Bug#195214: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution

[Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:17:05PM +0200, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:
> This sounds like you may want to use an alternative here, so that the
> sysadmin can choose which program to associate .iso files with by
> default. Of course, users must be able to override this, but I think
> that is given (is it?).
> 
> Alternatives will have to be supported by any package that brings such a
> file, but need no support from unrelated packages. Putting the file in
> question into a base package is bad because it may associate the file
> with a program that is not installed.

I misspoke about the purpose; these files don't actually associate
file types, just describe them. The only reasona arson and k3b both
provide them is that nothing else currently does.

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