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

[Ilya Palagin]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   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
To find the package a file belongs to, execute dpkg -S update-mime. 
It'll be "mime-support".

> renamed update-mime to downdate-mime, blew away /etc/mailcap (again)
> followed by "touch /etc/mailcap" and "chmod 000 /etc/mailcap".  chattr
It's wrong (no-Debian) way!

> 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.
$apt-get remove mime-support
If you are satisfied with dependent packages which will be removed, do 
so. If you still need apache, for example, create a void deb package 
"mime-support" and install it.





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