[Wine] Re: wine requires pulse?

[Rico]

tparker wrote:
> I am trying to remove all traces of pulseaudio from my install in an 
> attempt to get working sound. When I try to remove 
> wine-pulseaudio-1.1.29-1.fc11 (i586) it tells me that wine is a 
> dependency and it will be removed as well.
> 
> The description of that package says that it is not an official wine 
> audio driver, I am confused as to how it was even installed if not as 
> part of wine. I am left with several questions trying to figure out how 
> to proceed:
> 
> So if I go ahead and remove that and it takes wine with it - will I just 
> get it back again when I reinstall wine? The repository install of wine 
> does not show it as something required to add in when installing wine, 
> does that mean it is built into the wine package?


Probably you should read the description of the wine meta package which would be removed.
"In Fedora wine is a meta-package which will install everything needed for wine to work smoothly. Smaller setups can be achieved by installing some of the wine-* sub packages."


tparker wrote:
> Also, if it takes wine out does that also remove the installs of 
> programs in my wine directory so that I will lose anything saved there 
> as well as have to reinstall all the programs?
> 
> using:
> Wine 1.1.29
> Fedora 11 (x86_64)


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