mime aliases and inheritance vs. removed associations

[Vladimir Kudrya]

Hello!
I`ve commented the bugs.
In short: about generic/specific types  - good idea, but how apps would 
tell generic and specific types apart?
About disabling removals - unneeded logic breaker.

On 2015-04-05 18:12, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014, at 15:18, Ryan Lortie wrote:
>> One more nag about the mimeapps spec, while we're at it.
> After thinking on this and getting some feedback, I'd like to propose a
> couple of changes to the spec.
>
> One should be a fairly simple straight-up clarification:
>
>    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89877
>
> but it still leaves some questions unanswered.  For example: do we reset
> the blacklist (removed apps) between each iteration of the algorithm for
> the different types in the inheritance chain when building the list of
> apps that support a given type?
>
> Another suggestion (originally inspired by a random thought from Lars)
> is a bit of a big hammer, but it would completely avoid pretty much all
> of the problems we've been having here (and I think the cost, in
> practical terms, is pretty small):
>
>    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89880
>
> I'd appreciate feedback on these two bugs.
>
> Cheers
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