At 02:31 PM 1/6/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: >On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Brian C. White wrote: > >> >> 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. >
Not for xanim, I'll fix it when I get the chance, but the reason I had it depend is b/c for "newbies" it will be mostly useless without it, such as if they are using netscape and they are used to having the files they download be played automatically. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]