Re: Default Application for RPM files

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 11:08, Steven Garrity wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:24, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> > 
> >>I believe it has to do with the fact that the "official" or "standard" 
> >>MIME/type for the RPM extension is "Real Media" something.
> >>So at some point it was decided to leave the .rpm files without 
> >>asociation (an asociation with "Install Packages" would be non-standard, 
> >>and an asociation with Real Media Player would be a mistake in a 
> >>rpm-based distribution as FC2)
> > 
> > That can't be right - we should be able to use sniffing anyhow, or at
> > least associate the ".arch.rpm" extension if not plain ".rpm"
> 
> Should I file a bug on this?
> 

Yeah, presumably vs. system-config-packages

Havoc