Bad recommended package lists
Francois Gouget
fgouget at free.fr
Mon Apr 28 12:53:51 CDT 2008
http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages
The Wiki's Recommended Packages list contains a lot of incorrect
recommendations. I have already cleaned up the Debian section, but there
seems to be a lot of copy/paste that spread the bad information to the
RPM distros. So we'd need volunteers for pruning and updating these
lists for Fedora and RHEL / WBEL.
Here's a list of the suspicious or downright bad package
recommendations I spotted:
* audiofile-devel
This is a library for accessing audio files. Wine does not use it.
Maybe it was confused with AudioIO (which is not used on Linux
anyway).
* e2fsprogs-devel
Why would Wine need ext2fs tools?
* expat-devel
We use libxml2, not expat.
* glib2-devel
That's not the glibc. That's a Gnome library which Wine never used.
* isdn4k-utils-devel
Maybe this is for libcapi20?
* krb5-devel
As far as I know we don't use Kerberos in Wine (or it's experimental
code that is not enabled in the mainline).
* libao-devel
Wine does not use libao. Instead it has backends for most of the
audio systems out there, although there's always a new kid on the
block that's missing.
* libmng-devel
That's for MNG files, the moving version of PNG files. But what we
use is libpng, not libmng.
* libusb-devel
Wine did use libusb at one point but now it's using libhal.
* libogg-devel
* libvorbis-devel
We don't use those.
* libxml, libxml-devel
We use libxml2, not the deprecated libxml1. Now, maybe some
distributions use 'libxml-devel' as the package name for libxml2 but
this should be clarified, especially since libxml2-devel is
mentionned too.
* qt-devel
That's QT, the toolkit used by KDE. Wine has never used it.
* libXxf86dga-devel
As far as I can tell we don't use libXxf86dga anymore.
* opencdk-devel, libgpg-error-devel, libgcrypt-devel
These are all related to GPG. We have nothing to do with GPG so
we don't need them.
* libXft-devel
Wine uses FreeType and fontconfig but not libXft as far as I know.
* gnutls-devel
I believe we used GNU TLS at some point but now we use OpenSSL.
* cyrus-sasl-devel
Cyrus SASL also has to do with cryptography but as far as I can tell
we never used it.
* libieee1284-devel
For parallel port access. Not used as far as I can tell.
* libXmu-devel
Contains 'miscellaneous utility convenience functions
for X libraries to use'. I don't think Wine uses it.
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