After having talked about this with Hisham I agree that we can wait with
this, but not because I think this change could wait but because it has to
be done slightly different. Hisham had an idea (and I agree with him) that
the files should be created in Variables instead. This is done quite easy
by first decide on a hierarchy in Variable, say /S/V/mime, and then create
a symlink /System/Links/Shared/mime/applications ->
/S/V/mime/applications. Then one can call update-mime-database with
/S/V/mime as target and all files will be created there. To make this work
with applications that use these files one has to include /S/V/mime in the
XDG_DATA_DIRS variable, which would be done by appending it to that
variable from an Environemt file, for example in the Shared-Mime-INFO
package.
One question that remains is that if /S/V/mime should be a static
directory, i.e. be defined as a standard directory in our hierarchy, or if
it should be dynamically created by a package, and if so, which?
/Jonas
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:29:05 +0200, André Detsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I think we can wait to commit this change. Actually I still believe it
> is better to do this through PostInstall scripts.
>
> On 4/18/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Here's a patch to update the MIME database if the installed application
>> includes a xml file, which defines its MIME types.
>> I've added some utility functions to Functions/File and a function to
>> Functions/GoboLinux to rebuild the MIME DB. The MIME database should
>> only
>> be rebuilt if the application provides a xml file (placed in
>> Shared/mime/packages).
>> One "glitch", as I see it, is that this will place actual file in
>> /System/Links/Shared/mime (or wherever the ${goboShared}/mime directory
>> is). But I guess sometimes we have to accept some files in the /S/L
>> directory? Otherwice I don't know how to solve this.
>>
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