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Re: mailcap changes: a bug?



On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:18:50PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
| Every time I do apt-get upgrade for Woody (it seems), I find that apt has
| changed my preferred mailcap setting (display html using w3m) to
| gnome-help-browser.  It did it twice in the past three days.
| 
| Is that a bug, or *should* a package change my set preference without
| asking?

How'd you set it?  There's a file, /etc/mailcap.order, for setting the
preference on the order (priority) of various handlers, and there's a
section in /etc/mailcap (surrounded by comments) for putting what you
want in there that won't be touched by the system.

-D

-- 

Many are the plans in a man's heart,
but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.
        Proverbs 19:21



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