today's git broke winetricks gecko :-(

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Jacek,

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jacek Caban <jacek at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Did you read the page from the link that is on the dialog informing about
> missing Gecko?

I've been kind of following this thread and see where Jörg is coming
from. I don't think the argument about broken wine due to missing
gecko makes much sense given the way we have other soft dependencies
that can be missing if you build Wine yourself. A good example is the
xml or opengl libraries. It's possible to have a working wine for
specific needs without this package. If we are going to require this
package for every wine install then I would argue we should not have
any other soft dependencies either.

If a packager has not packaged Gecko or a hacker has built from source
it seems like winecfg should be invoked when a new prefix is created
rather than prompting for the download. Maybe for the general usage
case we should do it anyway. Alternatively, if we are going to have
this hook in here to satisfy this dependency during prefix creation
due to packagers not following a required guideline, maybe a little
public ridicule will force them to fix the package. Something along
the lines of 'your version of wine does not contain the gecko package,
please contact the package maintainer and inform them about this
issue' or something and let it proceed to download at least.


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Steven Edwards

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