[Bug 16608] Allow Runs=Yes even if Installs=No

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16608


Jörg Höhle <hoehle at users.sourceforge.net> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Jörg Höhle <hoehle at users.sourceforge.net>  2009-05-22 04:30:26 ---
So it's been reject, yet I've been annoyed several times that AppDB does not
accept the combination
installs: no
runs: yes

I met three cases:

a) Installer fails, but one can just copy all files from CD to HD
e.g. Pumuckl Klabauterjagd
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16122
(did not yet file bug report for the installer)
This case does not deserve garbage rating.

b) Installer fails with wine on MacOS, but copying the game directory and
registry entries from a Linux wine install works.
e.g. Pharaoh

c) People in AppDB report that copying a MS-Windows install directory to wine
works.

Case c) is very annoying, as it means that probably many people like me cannot
use the game, lacking a MS-Windows system.

Yet there's value in knowing about that in AppDB, esp. a) and b), instead of
silencing it by submitting false data.  For Pumuckl, I lied and said: installs:
N/A. This is not acceptable.

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