On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Max Horn <m...@quendi.de> wrote:
>
> Am 30.11.2010 um 22:16 schrieb Dr. Damian Dimmich:
>
>> Dear max,
>>
>> That is essentially what I was wondering - I don't think all the possible 
>> deps are needed for wine. Ofcourse there may be use cases I am not aware of, 
>> but wine is quite a unique package with a lot of possible deps because it is 
>> designed to operate in many environments. I don't believe all of the 
>> possible deps are warranted on osx, but I do understand the benefit of 
>> giving users all the options for binary packages, which is why I suggested 
>> using recommends for certain deps.
>
> Well, in this case, I don't think having arts, esound *and* jack gives the 
> user any benefit. To the contrary, as my example tells.
>
> So, I think it should be safe to drop esound and arts, and add --without-esd 
> to the ConfigureParams. There seems to be no special switch to remove arts 
> support, so I wonder if that was only an indirect dependency? Or maybe they 
> dropped it from wine 1.3.3 ?
>
>>
>> Anyway, my two cents, I'm of course happy to adhere to finks packaging 
>> policy.
>>
>> Max:  iirc you could even do without jack as there used to be a coreaudio 
>> driver for the mac.
>
> Indeed, I just checked the wine configure script, and that confirms there is 
> native coreaudio support. So one could also drop the jack dependency and add
>  --without-jack
>
> I tested a modified wine 1.3.3 package from CVS and that seemed to work fine. 
> That version did not seem to have any gstreamer support, but I suppose that 
> if newer versions have it, they also offer a --without-gstreamer option or 
> so, which could be used to avoid adding that as a dependency.
>
>
> Bye,
> Max

I don't know enough about wine to know what dependencies are the most
useful.   If someone else wants to take over evaluating the updates,
go for it.

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter

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