From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: CUPS provides a private MIME database in /etc/cups/mime.types that contains redundant information. CUPS should be configured to update and use the MIME databases specified by the Shared MIME-Info Specification (http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info.html). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cat /etc/cups/mime.types Actual Results: I see that CUPS installs a private MIME types file. Expected Results: I would expect CUPS to use the MIME databases provided by the Shared MIME-Info Specification (http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info.html). This allows a system administrator to maintain just one set of MIME definitions instead of separate ones for file, GNOME, CUPS, etc. Additional info:
This is actually a thornier issue than it appears. I'll mention it to the upstream developers.