[Bug 53393] wine-stable depend on wine-stable-i386

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53393

Zeb Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Zeb Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> ---
Wine is fundamentally a piece of multiarch software, because Windows is too,
and this will only become more true as time goes on and we improve our WoW64
implementation. (Although, from a packaging perspective, when WoW64 is done,
distributions can use it, and then they won't need to depend on 32-bit host
packages except for the 32-bit MinGW compiler and optionally some 32-bit MinGW
libraries.)

I understand it's unfortunate that we have to do things differently, but if
there are exceptions to be made, Wine should quite reasonably be one of those.

It's worth pointing out, also, that while a build of Wine gutted of 32-bit
components *can* work with purely 64-bit software, I don't think we want to
distribute that, lest unwary users fail to install the 32-bit portion and
wonder why things won't work. I think it makes more sense to require manual
configuration, as you've done, if you're really sure that you don't need the
32-bit parts. (It's also worth pointing out that even 64-bit programs often
ship with 32-bit installers, since otherwise the program has no way of
controlling what happens on a 32-bit machine.)

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