libmagic maintains its own separate database from xdg. XDG db is meant from the ground up to have other apps add to it etc… so that one is the one apps use as a

libmagic maintains its own separate database from xdg. XDG db is meant from the ground up to have other apps add to it etc… so that one is the one apps use as a library usually, if they want to integrate nicely and correctly with other installed apps. libmagic is the hacking of the two :)