[Portland] Duplicate MIME registration

[Bastian, Waldo]

I think that there are two distinct cases here:
1) An application installs a mimetype that is already provided as part
of the system
2) An application installs a collection of mimetypes (1 or more) that it
has installed before already (e.g. update to new version without
uninstall)

Note that these new mimetype defintions may either be identical to the
existing ones or slightly different (different matching rules,
additional translations, etc.). 

Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology
Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman

>-----Original Message-----
>From: portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:portland-
>bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Whipple, Tom
>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:30 AM
>To: portland at lists.freedesktop.org
>Subject: [Portland] Duplicate MIME registration
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am wondering what the use case is for the situation where a MIME type
>is registered, and is then registered again in duplicate.
>
>There is a similar situation for installing icons in the desktop or
>menus.
>
>My thought is that duplicate entries should be detected and the second
>registration attempt should be silently accepted, rather than allowing
>duplicate entries into the MIME database or onto the desktop.
>
>What do others think?
>
>-tom
>
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