From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SQDeB-0000Ww-0P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2012 08:13:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC6F2E0802; Fri, 4 May 2012 08:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05711E077F for ; Fri, 4 May 2012 08:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.186]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0M3H00E40O386640@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2012 10:11:32 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,530,1330902000"; d="scan'208";a="175763885" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 04 May 2012 10:11:32 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id q448BVoo018478 for ; Fri, 04 May 2012 10:11:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DB620A5 for ; Fri, 04 May 2012 10:11:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 10:11:33 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: [gentoo-user] Gnome mimeinfo cache To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.90-21-g5a27ed2 Message-id: <1336119093.14058.1@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 95eb767a-5cbc-464d-86d4-424034bb0b01 X-Archives-Hash: f69d081a1483aeef4d9678e3e4761cad 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.