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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