RFC: reducing wasted disk space from addon files

[Vincent Povirk]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:24 PM Hans Leidekker <hans at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> Did you consider using the existing msi for the shared scenario? You'd
> run the installer like this in each prefix (without mono installed):
>
> $ wine msiexec /i wine-mono-4.8.0.msi MONOBASEDIR=z:/home/user/shared_mono/wine-mono-4.8.0
>
> The package would need an extra registry entry that saves MONOBASEDIR,
> which would then be read by mscoree.get_mono_path().

I've considered and dismissed other solutions where msi is used to
manage shared files, it seems very unsafe.