Default Application for RPM files
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Fri Jun 11 21:27:29 UTC 2004
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"
Havoc
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