I have a custom nginx.conf file that I start nginx with using the cli, for example nginx -c /my/path/nginx.conf.
I have found that if I take the include /my/path/mime.types from the custom nginx.conf file, that the server still starts up fine, and webpages seem to load normally with no apparent errors.
I have been researching nginx directive priority, but I cannot see any reason that the default mime.types might be getting included. Is it safe to remove the custom mime.types include?
(I should clarify that there is nothing special about the contents of /my/path/mime.types. For the purposes of this question, consider it to be effectively the same as the contents of the default file.)