mailcap replacing mime-types?

lb.laboon · 2017-12-01 14:04:37

Just curious as to why mailcap is replacing the mime-types package.
Also, is there a reason mailcap provides /etc/nginx/mime.types? Shouldn't that be provided by nginx?

Last edited by lb.laboon (2017-12-01 14:07:33)

Slithery · 2017-12-01 14:10:10

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 29036.html

lb.laboon · 2017-12-01 14:13:54

In that case, couldn't the nginx package just provide /etc/nginx/mime.types as a symlink to /etc/mime.types?
I'm not really a fan of having an nginx-specific file on my system when I'm not running nginx.

Trilby · 2017-12-01 15:41:09

lb.laboon wrote:

In that case, couldn't the nginx package just provide /etc/nginx/mime.types as a symlink to /etc/mime.types?

It could, but it would almost certainly not work as the two files are different formats.

If the name nginx really bothers you and you can't stand having the directory on your system:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … _to_system

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lb.laboon · 2017-12-01 15:50:14

Trilby wrote:

lb.laboon wrote:
In that case, couldn't the nginx package just provide /etc/nginx/mime.types as a symlink to /etc/mime.types?
It could, but it would almost certainly not work as the two files are different formats.
If the name nginx really bothers you and you can't stand having the directory on your system:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … _to_system

I would say that's all the more reason it should be provided by nginx then (or perhaps forked to its own mailcap-nginx package if it must).
Apache also ships with its own mime.types which is just provided by the httpd package, so there's some inconsistency here.

Edit: NoExtract is really a non-solution, because if I want to install nginx someday then I'll have to remember to remove that line from the config and reinstall mailcap first.
I don't have anything against nginx, I just don't like that software-specific files are being included in a non-specific package.

Last edited by lb.laboon (2017-12-01 16:17:46)

lb.laboon · 2017-12-01 18:21:33

Opened a task on bugs to address this:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56532

puzzle · 2022-07-26 12:24:05

Ah, today

2ManyDogs · 2022-07-26 12:27:21

puzzle, you have been repeatedly asked to stop necrobumping. Take a two-week vacation to think about what you are doing here.

Closing.

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mailcap replacing mime-types?

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