ScriptletSnippets: desktop-database,mimeinfo

[Rex Dieter]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> Is gtk icon cache only a cache (ie: things will run without, just
> slower?)

Yes.

> Do shared-mime-info and desktop-file-utils fall into the same category
> or does some functionality of programs fail to work if
> desktop-file-utils and shared-mime-info aren't run?

The latter.

> Your post makes me think that some Core GNOME applications (nautilus?
> gnome-panel? gnome-vfs?) make use of the data generated by
> desktop-file-utils and shared-mime-info but nothing else.  Is that true
> or just a guess?

Gnome in general, yes.  That's why I'm arguing it should be the GNOME 
libs/core bits that should depend on these, not (all) individual apps.

> shared-mime-info seems to run itself on installation and update but
> desktop-file-utils does not.  If desktop-file-utils is made optional for
> the scriptlets, the desktop-file-utils Core package should run itself on
> install. 

I'm not arguing that running them should be optional, only that the 
additional dependancies for them not be added/Required.

> (Hmm.. gtk2 doesn't run gtk-update-icon-cache on install... is
> this a packaging bug? 

IMO, yes.

>Or perhaps this bug would resolve it:
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170335

Yes too.  (that's my bug).

-- Rex