Is it time to delete wineinstall?

[James Hawkins]

> How should I specify dll overrides for a specific program if the
> ~/.wine/config file isn't there anymore?

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="somedll=n" wine prog.exe

unless you mean override permanently in which case I think that
support is in the registry, but that specific part of the registry
tree is marked read only right now until everything is moved into the
registry.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:20:43 +0100, Joris Huizer <jorishuizer at planet.nl> wrote:
> Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:50:27PM -0800, M-Halo wrote:
> >
> >>Wine RPMs have never properly worked for me (I run JDS
> >>R2); so, I stick with installing via the wineinstall
> >>script.  I also recommend others to not use RPMs to
> >>avoid possible hassles.  (Ironic isn't it?)
> >>Wineinstall just makes everything easy by automating
> >>everything -- from configuring to making to installing
> >>to creating my fake c drive & config file -- ...
> >>especially when I'm instructed to rent a video or two.
> >>;)
> >
> >
> > And this is the problem: having wineinstall around makes
> > it a self-fulfiling profecy: in theory, you should get
> > the *same* result (and working version) if you run wineinstall
> > or configure/make/make install. But because we have wineinstall
> > people don't bother to fix the standard process, and instead
> > patch wineinstall.
> >
> > So, if RPM's don't work, or configure/make/make install doesn't
> > it's a bug. It needs fixing. As Dan put it, wineinstall should
> > just be:
> >     configure && make && make depend && make install
> >
> 
> All that about "configure && make && make depend && make install" would
> be valid if running those - and running wine for an exe after that,
> could generate/install any needed files, without the user needing to
> write difficult or "not-so-difficult" configurations
> 
> As I understand, the big problem is that ~/.wine/config file - it's in
> the todo to get rid of it, but not all config options are moved
> elsewhere; And the documentation will be outdated if that file isn't
> there - How should I specify dll overrides for a specific program if the
> ~/.wine/config file isn't there anymore? (as wine is not ready to run
> without any dll overrides for many programs - some may never run without
> them, like Internet Explorer)
> 
> I think, as long as that isn't handled, wineinstall can't go away...
> don't make using wine harder than it is...!
> 
> just my thoughts on this,
> regards
> 
> Joris
> 
> 


-- 
James Hawkins