Peter Valdemar Mørch
2006-Mar-28 04:19 UTC
[Wine] ~/.mime.types - format conflict with standard /etc/mime.types?
Hi, It seems that wine (or rather cxoffice) installs a non-standard ~/.mime.types file, and that makes other programs (e.g. lynx) die. Is there a bug here? Whose? Its format differs from /etc/mime.types (from the mime-support package on debian etch): # Users can add their own types if they wish by creating a ".mime.types" # file in their home directory. Definitions included there will take # precedence over those listed here. <snip> application/futuresplash spl application/ghostview application/hta hta <snip> However, the format of wine's (or cxoffice's) ~/.mime.types file is completely diffferent: <snip> # X-Created-By-mcap-cxoffice-ff120fd1-93c5-4bef-8da1-b9ecff669032:text_h323=text_h323 type=application/x-crossover-ade \ desc=Microsoft Access Project Extension \ exts="ade" <snip> (Sorry about line wraps. The "# X-Created-By" is one line, and the "type=", "desc=" and "exts=" lines are three different lines, the first two teriminated with at trailing '\'.) lynx accepts standard ~/.mime.types files, but croaks on cxoffice's. I suspect that may be true of other programs too... * What is it used for? MS Office seems to work without it... * Can I safely delete it - what should I expect? * Do you agree that creating it / its format is a bug with wine? * Or is it cxoffice specific? * Or is it a bug with lynx? * Or am I just outta luck? Peter -- Peter Valdemar M?rch http://www.morch.com