[Debian] How do I get rid of update-mime ?

[Walter Dnes]

  The Bill Gates "user-friendly, we *KNOW* that you want singing-dancing
email" mentality seems to have scored one direct hit on Debian.  I'm
used to opening email to check out HTML and attachments.  Debian has a
huge /etc/mailcap which lists all sorts of mime-types I don't want to be
played.  Having that as the default is bad enough.  However, after
blowing away /etc/mailcap, I find that update-mime re-creates it every
time I install/remove any app that handles a mime-type.

  Although there is a man page for update-mime,
"apt-get remove update-mime" claims it can't find any such package.  I
renamed update-mime to downdate-mime, blew away /etc/mailcap (again)
followed by "touch /etc/mailcap" and "chmod 000 /etc/mailcap".  chattr
only works on extfs2, and I'm running ReiserFS.  This workaround should
stop Debian from "helping me enjoy rich-format email".  But I'd still
like to find the "official channels" method of getting rid of
update-mime.

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1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
2) Those who wish they did
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