today's git broke winetricks gecko :-(

Jacek Caban jacek at codeweavers.com
Mon Nov 16 10:30:35 CST 2009


Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 05:08:21PM +0100, Jacek Caban wrote:
>   
>> Well, I hope that a side effect of installation during wineprefix
>> creation is that it will force packagers to package gecko <g> The
>> brutal true is that we had a very bad situation for a long time. I
>> can see three types of Wine users:
>>
>> - regular users
>> They use Wine packages that should guarantee presence of Gecko (as
>> Wine dependency or in Wine package, depends on packagers
>> preferences). The current situation will probably force packagers to
>> do the right thing <g>
>>     
>
> The Wine packages for openSUSE now do the right thing, since last Friday ;)
> It will hopefully get this way into openSUSE 11.3 too.
>   

Thanks!

I've added openSUSE to the list on:
http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko
It would be great if others could update the list for their distros. 
AFAIK Ubuntu packages also support Gecko, but I've never touched it, so 
I can't be sure. I don't know about other distros.


Jacek



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