Wolfgang Mader writes: > On Thursday 04 March 2004 19:49, Michael Schuerig wrote: >> I think you won't be able to make it work in a useful fashion. My >> suggestion is that you randomly select 10 to 100 debian packages >> and try to determine the appropriate MIME types. That way you'll >> get a feel for how/if your idea might work in practice. >> >> Which types an application or lib is able to handle is not fixed in >> a lot of cases, in particular, where plugins or other dynamically >> loaded libs are used. Just think of Konqueror and various media >> players. And then, the MIME type by itself doesn't say what an >> application/lib does. Lacking a better example, think of MIDI >> files. It's a huge difference between an app plays back the file >> and another app that prints a score of the notes.
> First of all - the idea is great in my oponion. On the other side > there are big problems to manage (see the quotation). But if you > think that you can do this or find another way to provide us with an > install-on-use feature go ahead and do this. If you're thinking about implementing this, you should also look at the debtags system. You can prolly find a link with google. cheers domi
