Yes, of course my suggestion is just a temporary fix. As soon as
update-mime is rerun, /etc/mailcap is over written. The best fix would be
if the unzip and tar packages did not come with mime entries in
/usr/lib/mime/packages/.
Unfortunately, it seems a local administrator has no way to make a
per
On 2013-01-02 11:04:35 -0800, Ben Wong wrote:
> Fortunately, a quick fix (at least for w3m) is easy. One can comment out
> the broken lines in /etc/mailcap:
>
> # It is better to not pretend to know how to deal with archives.
> #application/x-tar; /bin/tar tvf -; print=/bin/tar tvf - | print
> tex
This wishlist item may be more important than it seems as the bug also
breaks the w3m text browser. More than once, I've left a huge download
running and came back to find nothing but a list of files splatted to my
screen.
It just doesn't make sense that Debian's default method of handling
archive
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