On 11/02/2009, at 8:26 AM, Bart Smaalders wrote: > > While preparing for the massive package renaming in OpenSolaris, > I noticed that many .xml files are marked as editable, despite > their presence in /usr: > > usr/share/mime/*/*.xml > > They contain the string: > > <!--Created automatically by update-mime-database. DO NOT EDIT!--> > > Editable files which are marked DO NOT EDIT seem odd... or are these > the result of some post-processing step? Or are they subject to some > additional possible changes, somehow?
Yep, a result of update-mime-database which generates the various sub- folders based on the contents of /usr/share/mime/packages/*.xml. This get run from desktop-cache/mime-types-cache:default. Glynn
