[Mageia-dev] freeze push mgaonline

Kamil Rytarowski n54 at gmx.com
Thu Mar 15 22:54:43 CET 2012


On 15.03.2012 22:44, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:15:34PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> If you don't know what it is used for why are you so opposed? We have
>> our own names and suffixes, so I don't why you are against. For
>> exactly the same reason we dropped X-Mandriva-* in favor of X-Mageia
>> in .desktop files.
> If the formats are identical, then creating a brand-new MIME type is
> unnecessary complication. Server adminstrators who want to serve up
> .bundle files for both Mandriva and Mageia then have to deal with
> sending different two MIME types for files with the same extension.
Not true! The only thing to deal with is shipping files with the same 
extension.
>   The MIME
> type in /etc/mime.types is guaranteed to be wrong for one distribution
> or the other. And so on.
Not true.
>   But it's an academic argument if this type
> isn't actually used for anything.
The only academic thing is overwriting x-mga-* or x-mdv-* by a 3rd party 
source.
>>>> Dan



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