On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 04:16:28PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "DE" == Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> writes:
>
> DE> There's no "mimeopen" on my Fedora box. Looks like it comes from
> DE> package perl-File-MimeInfo.
>
> Well, sure; that's a manually specified dependency of Fedora's fvwm
> package. Distributions have the luxury of doing that. But I'm still
> not really seeing the point of that change, or the reason it was added.
> If that editor is only used for plain text files, what would mimeopen
> actually help with?
It's really only useful with the freedesktop's mime database, and AFAIK,
xdg-open surpasses this anyway. And that's definitely something I don't
want to rely on here at upstream as a default either.
-- Thomas Adam
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