[Mageia-dev] freeze push mgaonline

Fri Mar 16 09:45:57 CET 2012

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:54:43PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+> On 15.03.2012 22:44, Dan Fandrich wrote:
+> >On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:15:34PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
+> >>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.
+> >If the formats are identical, then creating a brand-new MIME type is
+> >unnecessary complication. Server adminstrators who want to serve up
+> >.bundle files for both Mandriva and Mageia then have to deal with
+> >sending different two MIME types for files with the same extension.
+> Not true! The only thing to deal with is shipping files with the
+> same extension.
+
+Think outside of a local machine. Extensions aren't used if something is
+served over http. It uses the MIME type. That locally the extension
+would be used to determine the MIME type still means it uses the MIME
+type.
+
+Locally a MIME type change doesn't have much of an effect. But it does
+if your interact with others (http, etc).
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+