[Bug 31842] Make wine lose weight by cleansing redundant libraries and executives

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31842

--- Comment #7 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> 2012-10-01 06:05:15 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (In reply to comment #4)
> > > 
> > > OK, if this feature isn't going to be implemented, can I symlink all those
> > > files into $WINEPREFIX (of course with every new wine release I will have to
> > > (re-)synchronize new libraries and remove dead ones)? Will everything work?
> > 
> > No, some apps write to them, when installing their own copy for instance.
> 
> Don't they call unlink() before overwriting the file?

No.

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