Re: Default applications determined by installation order
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:41:01AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> 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?
See the man page for mailcap.order(5).
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