Are we in danger of making the best the enemy of the good? Packaging
winetricks as-is would be helpful: making it a part of the packaging system,
keeping it up-to-date, maybe adding a man page.
Massive integration of distributable libraries into wine, and/or the
creation of a wine-nonfree package with more of same, are great ideas. But
they're also a lot more work than just packaging winetricks. So maybe let
the simple one be done first, and take the pressure off those who need more
time to do the trickier work?
If the new winetricks package were to be called wine-nonfree, that would lay
the foundations for later efforts ...
Chris Carr
-Original Message-
From: Andreas Barth [mailto:a...@not.so.argh.org]
Sent: 05 September 2010 14:05
To: Adam Borowski
Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org; 595...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty
script todownload and install variousredistributable runtime libraries
* Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl) [100905 11:04]:
It's a massive script, so the file count of 1 doesn't
really matter. Also,
it needs to update more often than wine proper, as it
refers to outside
locations.
I'd vote for having it as a separate package.
It'd rather make sense to create a wine-nonfree which includes the
libraries that we are allowed to redistribute, and downloads the
others.
Then it makes of course sense to have it as an seperate package (and
with e.g. cmake I'm even not sure if we couldn't take the free version
of it into wine proper).
In other words, there will be some massive integration effort into
debian, so winetricks won't look like the current script. Which is
something that should be done.
Andi
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