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<p>I don't think that's so questionable; doesn't the C++ entry also inherit from C? That would be logical at least historically speaking (and properly written C can still be compiled as C++ AFAIK).</p></div>
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<p>C is not a subset of C++ (let me point to Mr. Stroustrup who should know it :) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080617183013/http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#C-is-subset" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/web/20080617183013/http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#C-is-subset</a> )</p>

<p>The inheritance in sthe shared-mime-info is actually done as a hacky workaround for pattern-based magic failing to properly detect the MIME type, see<br />
<a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6743" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6743</a></p>

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<p>Agreed, that's what my current patch tries to do.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R32 KDevelop</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D15532">https://phabricator.kde.org/D15532</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>rjvbb, KDevelop, kossebau, kfunk<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>kfunk, pino, kossebau, kdevelop-devel, glebaccon, antismap, iodelay, vbspam, geetamc, Pilzschaf, akshaydeo, surgenight, arrowd<br /></div>