At the moment ~/.mailcap takes precedence over /etc/mailcap, so a user
can't specify a program to use for types that don't have a rule in
/etc/mailcap.
Specifically, I'd like to be able to specify fallbacks for text/* and
application/* (and just point them to my editor). If I do this at the
moment, then of course the setting overrides everything in
/etc/mailcap, which isn't what I want.
I think that what you're asking would go against the directions of the
RFCs.
Even if I change the behavion of run-mailcap, though, it may not help
you as many programs implement the processing of ~/.mailcap and
/etc/mailcap in their own code rather than calling my program. Thus,
the operation of the system would not be consistent as it would vary
depending on what program you're running.
OK. Is what I want to do stupid? If not, how do you think it is best
accomplished?
Not at all. I understand why that would be beneficial. However, the
"/*" entries are more of an afterthought in mime-types rather than a
planned out feature.
If you don't care about per-user, you could just add a rule is the
/usr/share/lib/mime/packages (or something like that) with the rule you
want. That will make it system-wide next time update-mime is run.
-- Brian
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