[Bug 30301] Remove Notepad, WordPad, Internet Explorer, etc

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30301

--- Comment #5 from Eldmannen <Eldmannen+wine at gmail.com> 2012-03-29 16:41:29 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > (In reply to comment #0)
> > > > Why does Wine come with built-in clones of Windows software components such as
> > > > Notepad, Wordpad, Internet Explorer, etc?
> > > > 
> > > Generally because applications expect those to be present and try to directly
> > > start e.g. notepad or iexplore.
> > Then those should be links or redirects to xdg-open.
> 
> Depending on how the application invokes, that is already the case for urls.

Can't we get rid of notepad, wordpad, iexplore?
Wouldn't that be desirable?

How about make them symlinks or something?

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