Hello everybody, hello Debian freedesktop.org maintainers, /bin/open has been kindly freed a couple years ago (#732796) and I would like to propose to repurpose it as a standard command for opening files, like on Mac OS and NextStep before it.
As I maintain the mime-support package (soon to be split in `mailcap` and `media-types`, seee #964850), that provides the `run-mailcap` command to open files, I propose to provide /usr/bin/open as a symbolic link to it using the alternatives system. While `run-mailcap` has mutiple command-line options, I would like to define the "interface" of /usr/bin/open as having a single argument only, which is a path to a file or a directory. This would give the opportunity for other packages such as xdg-utils to provide /usr/bin/open if they wish so. I welcome your comments; please CC me as I am not subscribed. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan
