[gentoo-user] Gnome mimeinfo cache

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

Hi,

I don't know Gnome but I use some applications, like the  
mail-client/balsa.
It opens suitable applications for given mime types (in attachments).
The application invoked is read from   
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache .
Unfortunately, that file is rebuild after each emerge of a related  
package.
E.g., having reinstalled media-gfx/gimp it places gimp at the front of  
the list of
packages suitable for viewing a postscript file.
Currently I am only able to modify  
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache by changing
the order of coresponding applications.

Is there a more elegant (persistent) way?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.