[Mageia-dev] freeze push mgaonline

Thu Mar 15 22:15:34 CET 2012

On 15.03.2012 21:41, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 21:07, Dan Fandrich<dan at coneharvesters.com>  wrote:
+>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:25:40PM +0100, n54 at gmx.com wrote:
+>>> * stop using Mandriva URLs and replace them by www.mageia.org (mga#1590)
+>>> * replace Mandriva strings by Mageia in gnome-mandrakeonline.desktop
+>>> * replace MIME Type application/x-mdv-exec by application/x-mga-exec
+>> Replacing Mandriva ->  Mageia in user-visible text makes sense, but what
+>> exactly is the MIME type used for?
+For opening files. It's linked through x-mga-exec for *.bundle files.
+>> If the underlying data format hasn't
+>> changed (whatever it is), then this isn't something that should really be
+>> modified, any more than renaming image/vnd.microsoft.icon to something
+>> else.
+If you don't know what it is used for why are you so opposed? We have 
+our own names and suffixes, so I don't why you are against. For exactly 
+the same reason we dropped X-Mandriva-* in favor of X-Mageia in .desktop 
+files.
+> AFAIR, it used to be for long-dead Kiosk project, several years ago
+> (Kiosk was declared a dead project by the end of 2006). .bundle files
+> (downloaded through http) were containing special instructions to
+> trigger specific urpmi behaviour (adding a media, installing RPMs from
+> this media). It was not used since.
+I'm in favor of removing all unneeded parts from mgaonline. There were 
+many parts related to megapacks, server editions, club membership. If 
+the .bundle is unused then it too can be removed.
+