> > None of these are technically supposed to depend on mime-support. They > > should only test for its availability before calling the "install-mime" > > program. This is documented in the "install-mime" man page. > > Well, I can only speak to the needs of the pine package. /etc/mailcap is > provided by mime-support and needed by pine. This is the reason for it's > dependence on mime-support. Install-mime is not needed or used by the pine > installation scripts, so is not the issue here. I can only assume that the > other packages mentioned have similar needs and therefore, rightly, depend > on mime-support.
Yes, of course. I wasn't thinking about programs using it. <sheepish grin> Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to get it together? We can help! http://www.verisim.com/coordinator/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]