Changes for Wine on Debian

Vincent Povirk madewokherd at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 15:29:51 CDT 2015


>> - wineserver is not in PATH but in an arch specific subdirectory in
>> /usr/lib (works flawlessly for plain wine, but is a pita for 3rd party
>> stuff like winetricks and PlayOnLinux).
>
> Also a pita for people who advise typing things like 'wineserver -k'?
> Are they really supposed to know to look in this directory?
>
> Why is it in an arch-specific subdirectory when wineserver is designed
> to be architecture independent (same interface, and potentially the
> same server instance, used with 32-bit and 64-bit clients)?

Er, sorry, I missed the part where you were describing the current
state and not necessarily advocating for it. Never mind.

Although now this part seems a bit odd:

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com> wrote:
> - Download of gecko and mono packages is disabled.

Doesn't keeping it (so that the wine package downloads a binary blob
not built by Debian) violate their principles?



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