RFC: reducing wasted disk space from addon files

[Jacek Caban]

Hi André,

On 3/6/19 2:35 PM, André Hentschel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just my two cents on it.
>
> Can't we keep the shared stuff in the home directory? It would be 
> user-wide instead of system-wide, but already a reduction and we 
> wouldn't need to mess with access restrictions in /usr. Possible 
> naming: $HOME/.wine-addons-gecko $HOME/.wine-addons-mono


What problem would it solve comparing to system-wide install? Once we 
have a solution, we could add $HOME to search dir if needed.


> Another idea would be to outsource this topic to steam or even better 
> winetricks. Most filesystems in use support hardlinks, a winetricks 
> verb with wine prefixes as arguments that hardlinks all gecko/mono 
> stuff in them (if their shaXXX hash match) looks very easy and 
> suitable to me and steam could use it too. That way the prefix remains 
> transferable.


Sure, that's another option. It doesn't help pure Wine through.


Jacek