> Brian> If you put the "if" clause around the calls to "install-mime", then
> Brian> you don't have to actually depend on 'mime-support'.
>
> That is correct. But would I want this? Now that we have mime-support,
> shouldn't I depend on it? It really is a useful feature. I find it reasonable
> to enfore this via Depends. Otherwise it fails silently and we gain nada.
I think it should depend on it, yes. I just wanted to make sure you
knew
it wasn't strictly necessary.
In the past, some people have complained about depending upon packages
that
aren't strictly necessary.
> BTW: I currently use what you posted earlier as calls to install-mime, but
> added a ">/dev/null" as I don't like the verbosity too much. As the output of
> # grep install-info /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postrm | grep -v quiet
> is empty on my machine, I think you should add a switch --quiet.
I can add the --quiet option, but you must not redirect the output.
"install-mime" can become interactive if it encounters a conflict, and
with no stdout this would cause problems.
Brian
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