Default applications determined by installation order
It would seem that which application is used to handle files of a particular
MIME type (for instance, to open HTML attachments in mutt) is decided by
what order they were installed in. I just reinstalled Konqueror, and now
Konqueror is used to open any HTML file. Before that it was Mozilla. Thing
is, I had manually edited /etc/mailcap to put links nearest the top -- but
that only lasted until the next time apt upgraded a browser, then THAT
browser moved above it in the list and took over.
Shouldn't overriding a user preference like that at least require
confirmation from the user? Am I missing something, or could this be
reported as a bug against apt?
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Carl Fink carl@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
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