Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented solution exists in theory
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:
> On 01.02.2012 16:03, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Assuming that Russ did not overlooked something this means that mailcap
>> entries can not generatet from desktop files. So the one-liners
>> mentioned by Josselin which might solve 50% of the task could not
>> easily enhanced to two-liners doing 100% which do all the work. In
>> other words we dropped support for a technique that is used by several
>> programs and it seems a replacement is either hard to do or not
>> possible at all.
> Tools like mutt, which need the extended mailcap syntax, can certainly
> continue to ship a mime file.
> If a package ships both a desktop and a mime file, the conversion-tool
> could simply skip the automatic generation of the mailcap entries under
> the assumption that the manually written ones take precedence.
Yeah, that's basically the sort of design that I was thinking of.
The programs on my system that use the extended mailcap syntax are all
ones that aren't very invested in using *.desktop files right now anyway.
Things like copiousoutput are useful for commands that don't really fall
into the core area intended to be addressed by *.desktop.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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