Re: [RFC] rename mime.conf

Hi,
  +1 for content-types.conf. This should hopefully fly with distro packagers

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Alex Rousskov
<rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com> wrote:
> On 11/15/2013 09:11 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> For quite some time I have been trying to get the package distributors
>> to handle our mime.conf file as a Squid-specific config file, which gets
>> FHS $(sysconf) installation instead of a Squid a data file, which gets
>> FHS $(datadir) installation.
>>
>> But there are still some strong holdouts for a couple of reasons...
>>
>> * some simply do not get the idea that something called mime.conf can be
>> completely different in purpose from mime.conf / mime.table provided by
>> the OS for file type sniffing.
>> These ones are mapping our mime.conf to that table and screwing over
>> the FTP and Gopher directory listings. (Thankfully it is not the OS
>> getting screwed over).
>>
>> * some are having issues with our mime.conf clashing with the system one
>> in their automated system install/uninstall tools and QA systems.
>>
>>
>> It has been a long battle and I think we have reached a stalemate where
>> I cannot do much more than just rename the file and avoid both these
>> confusions.
>>
>> Are there any objections to renaming mime.conf to icons.conf ?
>> Or suggestions of a better file name for it ?
>
>
> Something like types.conf, ctypes.conf, type-guesses.conf, or
> content-types.conf may work better than icons.conf because we are
> configuring more than just icons in that file AFAICT.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Alex.
>

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