[RFC PATCH 0/5] XAudio PE conversion.

[Sveinar Søpler]

Sveinar

On 05.09.2021 14:04, Rémi Bernon wrote:
> Another potential issue that I'm thinking of, is that if you have 
> these dependencies shipped by distribution packages, you may end up in 
> a situation where an application starts using them as their own 
> dependencies, instead of the non-wine-specific versions.
>
> Clearly it's not a good practice, but you can't prevent it as soon as 
> distributions provide the packages, and I can imagine a few reasons 
> why they would do so (because it's convenient and the 
> non-wine-specific version isn't packaged, or at a different version).
>
I might have missunderstood (quite likely) something here... You guys 
are not talking about making distro's provide packages needed for 
"special wine-only stuff" right?

Are distributions supposed to provide any sort of 
"wine-only-but-can-be-used-for-other-stuff" packages that will be 
required for wine to build/run?
> If we only build them as part of Wine, you really have to build your 
> application against Wine build tree to end up in the same situation.
>
> Of course, we can then consider that it's not our problem and don't 
> care about breakage a dependency update could cause, but still...
>
> Cheers,