"Extension Buddy" for Fedora 9?

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 15:48:51 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:40 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:35:20 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > It would be cool if we could autoextract mime handling information
> > from desktop files installed in /usr/share/applications and generate
> > "mime(application/pdf)" style rpm provides.
> 
> YOu know, I like that idea. A lot.

This will figure out the provides needed:

for i in `grep -h MimeType /usr/share/applications/* | sed "s/^MimeType=//" | sed "s/;/\n/g" | sort -u`; do echo "mime($i)"; done

Someone just has to turn it into a proper rpm find-provides thing.





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