Re: [RFC] rename mime.conf

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:17:09 +1300

On 17/11/2013 9:13 a.m., Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> Just wanted to say this is the first time I have been seen a thread
> about it.
> If we will define it in the squid.conf as one of the main component it
> will might look differently.
>
> On 11/16/2013 06:11 AM, 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.
> OK a list of packages options:
> apt(deb)
> yum(rpm)
> emerge(dont remeber? ebuild?)
> pkgtool\installpkg(slackware..)
> any others?
>
> Instead of jumping to change the file name can we *try* to "ping" these
> package distributors\maintainers and notify them that there is a meaning
> to this file name?(2 pings and then drop the route...)?

I have been doing so every few months or so for the last ~5 years. Even
sending patches against their packaging. Some changed, some didn't.

Amos
Received on Sun Nov 17 2013 - 02:17:21 MST

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