Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 121769
kdelibs should provide openoffice mimelnk files (not oo.org)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:41 EST
Description of problem: Both kdelibs and openoffice.org can provide the mimelnk files /usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.desktop /usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.draw.desktop /usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.impress.desktop /usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.desktop At present, FC's/rawhide's openoffice.org rpm owns these. I would argue that kdelibs should be the rightful owner of these files: 1. mimelnk files are used *only* in kde 2. the kdelibs versions of these files include more translations 3. the kdelibs versions of these files include hints to help koffice to import/export openoffice files. 4. if openoffice.org is not installed, then these mimetypes are undefined in kde (potentially crippling koffice's ability import/export openoffice files) Version-Release number of selected component: (versions up to and including) openoffice.org-1.1.1-4 kdelibs-3.2.2-3 See also bug #121767 (the openoffice.org equivalent to this report). I wasn't sure the correct way to submit a bug that affects 2 packages.
this is a file conflict in rpm. Perhaps we should make a subpackage, which just only includes mimelink files, which koffice/openoffice can share. Dan, do you any idee ?
Been there done that (in the kde-redhat project), and creating a common subpackage is not worth the pain and suffering involved. Besides, as I mentioned, these mimelink files are only used in kde anyway, so there's no point in being able to install them outside of kde anyway. Further, upgrading to ooo-1.1.2 makes the problem go away too, as it no longer includes the mimelnk files in question either.
Per bug #121767, ooo no longer includes kde mimetypes. Now kde is left without providing them until this is fixed.
it's now fixed in new kdelibs from rawhide.