RE: Suggestion for minor interoperability advance

[Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay gnu org>]

# Realplayer seem to install mime localy for each user, something which
# strikes me as stuid, but that is another debate. 

IM(V)HO,

There should be a system (or campus?)-wide MIME database in
/etc/somewhere, or /usr/share/somewhere, plus user-level config files in
~/.somewhere, allowing both administrative control and user tweaks. Doing
one or the other but not both strikes me as being a bit silly. The key
here, of course, is getting everything talking to the same format of
config files..

libmime anybody? :)

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Mo McKinlay             Chief Software Architect         inter/open Labs
mmckinlay (at) gnu.org                                http://www.gnu.org