[Bug 19018] [wishlist] Winetricks should be integrated into winecfg

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19018





--- Comment #5 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-06-22 11:01:48 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Thanks for the info. I understand that there may be policies against allowing
> automatic installation of additional libraries for which you need a license,
> and that is sensible. However there are some "tricks" which are of a different
> nature,
> 
> - There are "tricks" which amount to minor registry hacks (fontsmooth-*,
> fakeie6, ...). In my opinion it makes a lot of sense to have these in winecfg.

Hacks by definitions don't belong in wine.

> - There are "tricks" which install free software (gecko, firefox3, vlc, ogg,
> [mono?], ...). Software installation is surely more cumbersome to handle than
> registry hacks, but there are no licensing issues for these.

Gecko should be handled at the packaging level. The others aren't bundled with
windows, nor should they be bundled with wine. You don't need, e.g., vlc to run
most applications.

The best solution is for package maintainers to bundle a recent winetricks.

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