On 13/03/13 14:40, Richard Shaw wrote:
When you try to open a file for which you have no package installed
that handles that file type, there is a GUI that pops up and asks if
you want it to search for a package that can handle the file.
How exactly does this mechanism work? I'm assuming there is some
meta-data in the RPM package that provides this information?
I think it happens because the package has a provide of the form:
mimehandler(application/csv)
Try "rpm -q --provides libreoffice-calc" for example.
In turn rpmbuild creates those automatically from the mime types listed
in any desktop files it finds in the package.
Tom
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