diff --git a/meta/classes/mime.bbclass b/meta/classes/mime.bbclass
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+DEPENDS += "shared-mime-info-native shared-mime-info"
+
+mime_postinst() {
+if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
+	UPDATEMIMEDB=`which update-mime-database`
+	if [ -x "$UPDATEMIMEDB" ] ; then
+		echo "Updating MIME database... this may take a while."
+		$UPDATEMIMEDB $D${datadir}/mime
+	else
+		echo "Missing update-mime-database, update of mime database failed!"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+}
+
+mime_postrm() {
+if [ "$1" = remove ] || [ "$1" = upgrade ]; then
+	UPDATEMIMEDB=`which update-mime-database`
+	if [ -x "$UPDATEMIMEDB" ] ; then
+		echo "Updating MIME database... this may take a while."
+		$UPDATEMIMEDB $D${datadir}/mime
+	else
+		echo "Missing update-mime-database, update of mime database failed!"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+}
+
+python populate_packages_append () {
+    import re
+    packages = d.getVar('PACKAGES', True).split()
+    pkgdest =  d.getVar('PKGDEST', True)
+
+    for pkg in packages:
+        mime_dir = '%s/%s/usr/share/mime/packages' % (pkgdest, pkg)
+        mimes = []
+        mime_re = re.compile(".*\.xml$")
+        if os.path.exists(mime_dir):
+            for f in os.listdir(mime_dir):
+                if mime_re.match(f):
+                    mimes.append(f)
+        if mimes:
+            bb.note("adding mime postinst and postrm scripts to %s" % pkg)
+            postinst = d.getVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, True)
+            if not postinst:
+                postinst = '#!/bin/sh\n'
+            postinst += d.getVar('mime_postinst', True)
+            d.setVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, postinst)
+            postrm = d.getVar('pkg_postrm_%s' % pkg, True)
+            if not postrm:
+                postrm = '#!/bin/sh\n'
+            postrm += d.getVar('mime_postrm', True)
+            d.setVar('pkg_postrm_%s' % pkg, postrm)
+            bb.note("adding shared-mime-info-data dependency to %s" % pkg)
+            d.appendVar('RDEPENDS_' + pkg, " shared-mime-info-data")
+}