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Crazy... wouldn't it make sense to combine both DBs?

• scrollaway 12y ago
  No, the databases are very different. `file` can do some very advanced file processing, while xdg-mime has a regex-ish syntax for scanning part of the file. More to the point though, the xdg database is extensible. While `file` requires playing with the source.
  • blablabla123 12y ago
    But then one could combine the good parts of both? Very advanced file processing + extensible database, sounds awesome. ;) I mean seriously, once I wrote a simple web app in Go and the content-type for static serving was determined via file. (It's just so easy.) But nobody in the world wants to have Desktop stuff installed on her server.
    • scrollaway 12y ago
      The databases are not combinable, that doesn't mean they don't look at each others' improvements. File keeps an eye on new formats in s-m-i and vice versa.
      • blablabla123 12y ago
        That's the least one can do when working with Copy&Paste ;)