Sorry, I keep forgetting how to reply to the list properly.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 11:40 AM IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
From what I can tell, most MIME's are part of a single package in Linux distros. In the case of debian based, the package is called shared-mime-info,
which
includes the file /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml containing mime types.
of course not. the freedesktop.org.xml covers many well-known files. but a Pd file is not "well known" to a larger community (unlike e.g. a PDF file). therefore it probably should go into a separate file.
Right, of course. I was silly enough not to check the praxis among other packages where I can see a multitude of them doing it the same way (by adding an additional file).
I was thinking about the possibility of there being conflicts, in which case it would make sense to be as upstream as possible with this particular issue.
/Kaj