[Bug 30301] Remove Notepad, WordPad, Internet Explorer, etc

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30301

--- Comment #6 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> 2012-03-29 17:37:34 CDT ---
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> > > > > Why does Wine come with built-in clones of Windows software components such as
> > > > > Notepad, Wordpad, Internet Explorer, etc?
> > > > > 
> > > > Generally because applications expect those to be present and try to directly
> > > > start e.g. notepad or iexplore.
> > > Then those should be links or redirects to xdg-open.
> > 
> > Depending on how the application invokes, that is already the case for urls.
> 
> Can't we get rid of notepad, wordpad, iexplore?
> Wouldn't that be desirable?
> 
> How about make them symlinks or something?

No, a lot of programs depend on having the resources available.

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