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> Why? There are easier ways to do the same:
>
> POSTIN: /usr/sbin/mimedb add --priority=5 "mozilla" "text/html"
> POSTUN: /usr/sbin/mimedb del "mozilla"
> (perhaps we should first look if the executable exists?)
>
> mimedb would be able to add and remove entries in a file
> /etc/mime.run or similiar..

That sounds like a great solution. Do kde and gnome both use this for mime 
types? Also, you have to be careful with the del in case the item being 
deleted is not there (due to manual editing) and make sure that doesnt throw 
any erros / crash rpmdrake etc. Sure this is a bit of work to implement now, 
but the amount of effort going into things like devfs etc. surely means that 
this is a worthwile venture. I have installed mandrake on machines for people 
who have never used linux before, and their biggest complaint (obscure 
hardware excluded - mostly winmodems) is that even though there is an icon 
for a file, there is no app, and they have no idea which apps do what.

I also think a nice idea would be a place on the website users can request an 
rpm of a package they want, but for which there is none (and therefore 
wouldnt know how to install) and we could view these requests and make rpms. 
This would obviously have searchable functionality and user mailback when a 
packages has been made etc.. When i was new to linux trying to get some apps 
working (from source) was very confusing. Especially as everything under dos 
had an 'install program' of sorts. Ive been using it for years and i STILL 
cant get festival speech synthesis to compile.

Just my thoughts, its pretty hard to think of how to improve such a sweet 
distro. 

Tom

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Tom "Tomahawk" Badran
Imperial College Dept of Computing
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