wine packages for Fedora Extras

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Tuesday, July 4, 2006, 12:06:00 PM, Andreas Bierfert wrote:
> Hi,

> some of you might have noticed that building 0.9.16 for Fedora Extras took me
> more time then the releases before. This was because of the discussions from a
> couple of weeks ago on this list. As a result I did spent some time on the
> mentioned issues and came across an easy solution:

> If you install wine form the Fedora Extras repository via 'yum install wine'
> nearly everything that would be in a monolithic package is going to be
> installed. The 'wine' package now is a meta-package containing requires for
> the various subpackages. So now 'normal' users who do a 'yum install wine'
> will get everything they need and experts who know what they are doing can
> go and install only the parts they want. I hope that this solution now leads to
> fewer 'false positives' on bug reports and for better user integration and
> satisfies some of the things you, the wine folks, brought up.

> Thanks for the input on this matter. I hope that this is only the first step
> towards a good relation ship between wine and the fedora packages for wine and
> that emails like the ones from a couple of weeks back won't happen again...

> So for the announcement: 

> wine 0.9.16 for Fedora Extras 3,4,5,devel is build and should be pushed to the
> mirrors in a couple of hours.

> - Andreas


Wonderful! Thank you very much!

Vitaliy.