| Summary: | x11-misc/shared-mime-info should moved be from x11-misc to gui-misc or other relevant category. | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | sozuba <sozuba> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Freedesktop bugs <freedesktop-bugs> |
| Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | emerge ouoput for app-admin/syslog-ng | ||
Created attachment 867625 [details] emerge ouoput for app-admin/syslog-ng x11-misc/shared-mime-info should move category from x11-misc to gui-misc or other relevant category, x11-misc seems to be a misnomer. Issue: The 'shared-mime-info' package contains the core database of common MIME types, their file extensions and icon names. It has nothing to do with display protocol or windowing systems. Having 'shared-mime-info' package under x11-misc seems to be a misnomer and it would be ideal to move this from x11-misc to gui-misc (if used only by gui apps), or to other relevant category (if used by non-gui applications as well). Reason: For people who don't want any x11 applications, such as those using a purely wayland only environment or a headless server, this is confusing when installing applications such as app-admin/syslog-ng pulls in x11-misc/shared-mime-info, due to this being a dependency of dev-libs/glib-2.76.3 with the 'mime' use flag. I had to go about masking/de-selecting the 'mime' use flag only to search and realize this package has nothing to do with x11 or any display-server/protocol. This will help users to associate packages accordingly.