Why isn't everyone compiling wine

[JLB]

I'll be a bit less polite and a bit more to the point.

If Unix systems didn't insist upon scattering files all the hell over
/etc, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include,
/var/share/mybunghole, /opt/local/stupidlib, etc. etc...

Think of the old System 7 and earlier for the Mac... how everything stayed
neatly in its own directory. If Unix (or Windows!) were like that, it
wouldn't be such a pain to compile and install things locally. It wouldn't
vomit files all over a billion different directories. WINE is a -BIG-
project, and DOES spew files all over the damned filesystem.

On Sat, 22 May 2004, phrostie wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 15:00:55 -0400
> From: phrostie <pfrostie at yahoo.com>
> To: wine-users at winehq.org
> Subject: Re: Why isn't everyone compiling wine
>
> it's not that i'm afraid of compiling my own, but with the package managers in
> modern distributions it's normally best to keep everything under the control
> of rpm, dpkg, apt-get or what ever.
>
> On Sat May 22 2004 06:21 am, Kristiaan Lenaerts wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > My guess is that a lot of people are afraid of compiling. I have to
> > admit I did the same when I just started using linux, having to learn
> > how to install a program, using a package-manager... I was afraid of
> > using self-compiled things, because I had no idea how to uninstall it if
> > it did't work. Working with packages gives *some* comfort, because
> > that's easy to use, and that's the way the system installed itself (and
> > updates itself).
> >
> > Also, not knowing where programs go after they are compiled, what all
> > those "/usr/lib /usr/bin ..." dirs are, what has to go where... It is so
> > comfusing at first, that I can imagine that most people (I did) just use
> > the package manager, it just works (most of the time).
> >
> > But I do agree, since I started compiling wine (gentoo - now using the
> > cvs), a lot of things just worked that didn't before. Now, it is well
> > possible that has more to do with the version of wine, than actually
> > compiling it yourself, but the packages are outdated most of the time...
> >
> > just my experience...
> >
> > Krist
> >
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