Re: [RFC] rename mime.conf

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:47:12 -0700

On 11/15/2013 09:11 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> For quite some time I have been trying to get the package distributors
> to handle our mime.conf file as a Squid-specific config file, which gets
> FHS $(sysconf) installation instead of a Squid a data file, which gets
> FHS $(datadir) installation.
>
> But there are still some strong holdouts for a couple of reasons...
>
> * some simply do not get the idea that something called mime.conf can be
> completely different in purpose from mime.conf / mime.table provided by
> the OS for file type sniffing.
> These ones are mapping our mime.conf to that table and screwing over
> the FTP and Gopher directory listings. (Thankfully it is not the OS
> getting screwed over).
>
> * some are having issues with our mime.conf clashing with the system one
> in their automated system install/uninstall tools and QA systems.
>
>
> It has been a long battle and I think we have reached a stalemate where
> I cannot do much more than just rename the file and avoid both these
> confusions.
>
> Are there any objections to renaming mime.conf to icons.conf ?
> Or suggestions of a better file name for it ?

Something like types.conf, ctypes.conf, type-guesses.conf, or
content-types.conf may work better than icons.conf because we are
configuring more than just icons in that file AFAICT.

HTH,

Alex.
Received on Sat Nov 16 2013 - 05:47:14 MST

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