Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-20 21:06, Andrew Winnenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:11 -0500
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > For example, which apps to use open jpeg files, PDF files, ODF, DOC,
> > > XLS, etc, whether I'm in Thunar, Thunderbird, Evolution, Mutt,
> > > gentoo or any of a dozen other file managers.
> > >
> > > There should be a freedesktop standard for file associations.
> > I guess you're right.  It would be nice to be able to set that sort of
> > thing once, and then have all applications respect the choice, at least
> > by default.
> >
> > Well, a quick search seems to indicate that some DEs already have this,
> > e.g. Gnome, with its /etc/gnome/defaults.lst.  I guess you want
> > something that's DE independent.
> >
> > Celejar
>
>
> I may be mistaken, but isn't that functionality provided by shared-mime-info?

But isn't it system-wide?

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