Re: change default configuration

[Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald buddenhagen gmx de>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:29:28PM +0200, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> I fought against it for quite some time, but, in the end, this was not
> a fight that I could win. Debian Policy says it should be this way,
> thus so it is, and so it will be :-/
fwiw, this refers to
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#editors-and-pagers
and the only trace of a "fight" i found quickly was
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557126 which is
somewhat unspectacular. i also found
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mc/+bug/263442 showing that
ubuntu was more reasonable about it.

anyway, i call bullshit on debian's decision. mcedit is built into mc,
and it's an integral part of the mc experience. while mc offers an
"escape route" (which it totally wouldn't have to, btw, and then what,
debian?), it's absolutely obvious that it should prefer its own solution
by default. the chosen interpretation of the policy would also imply
that the libreoffice shell must start calligra words just because it's
the preferred word processor in the desktop's mime type associations.