[Wine] Re: Wine Gecko install notification

[dimesio]

oiaohm wrote:
> Run this doh123
> WINEPREFIX=~/testwine wine notepad
> 
> Even that wine notepad.exe.so  is a elf-pe you can build this as  PE ie windows executable.  Yes you will notice the testwine prefix is created without asking once for gecko.   And gecko is not installed in that perfix at all.
> 
> 


When I run that command using plain Wine, built from git, I am prompted to install gecko. There is the option to say no at that point. That's how it's supposed to work, and your claim that it doesn't is just plain wrong. There was a long discussion about it on wine-devel when the change was made.