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xdg-override: change default application temporarily on Linux

Override xdg-open behavior. Because the way it already works is not confusing enough - koiuo/xdg-override

However, there are situations when this consistent behavior is not desired: for example, if we need to override default browser just for one application and only temporarily. This is where xdg-override helps: it replaces xdg-open with itself to alter the behavior without changing system settings. proxyPkg generates a package which can be installed to the profile to globally override xdg-open behavior:

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