Bug#413948: Having gedit-common installed without gedit confuses the system

[Reuben Thomas]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 01:20 +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> The problem here being that when gedit-common is installed,
>> gedit.desktop is present, so applications trying to find a text editor
>> via the mimeinfo.cache file decide that they can run gedit, but they
>> can't.
>
> Hi,
>
> When is this a problem? AFAIK the only package depending on gedit-common
> is gedit?

The problem is that other applications think that they can run gedit, when 
in fact it's not installed. They look up "appropriate viewer for text file", 
and because gedit.desktop is installed, they get "gedit" as an appropriate 
viewer for e.g. text/plain.

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