Default Application for RPM files

Steven Garrity stevelist at silverorange.com
Sun Jun 13 15:08:05 UTC 2004


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?

Steven Garrity





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