WINE

[Patrick Barnes]

Nils Philippsen wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 13:23 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
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>>On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 20:06 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
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>>>I'm sure numerous people don't care at all about the GL part (people
>>>using notes under linux...). It's not nice to put wine in livna and make
>>>it depend on nvidia's closed stuff. If it's so important, why no put
>>>wine in FE and rebuild a special version (other package name) in
>>>livna ? 
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>>We could probably do that.
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>>Wine in FE. WineGL in Livna.
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>I don't think we need to do this as all other projects using GL seem to
>manage with being compiled against normal Mesa libGL* and then run
>against nVidia's libGL*. From what I've seen the symbols used aren't in
>the applications' code but get automatically linked when compiling
>against nVidia's libGL*. There's simply no need to limit 3D to owners of
>nVidia cards if all the game producers get by without resorting to that.
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>Nils
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As someone who has nVidia cards and has used Wine RPMs not compiled
against the nVidia stuff, I can say that Wine works just fine with or
without nVidia's GL stuff on nVidia and non-nVidia systems.  There is
absolutely no reason to build Wine packages with requirements for
nVidia.  If there are no legal issues, there is absolutely no reason
that Wine can't be included in Extras and only in Extras.  Users with
nVidia hardware could use the Wine packages from Extras without any
problems.

I would, however, strongly advise that if the WineTools software is also
to be packaged, that it be placed in Livna.  WineTools is a separate
project, but very useful to Wine users in getting a larger variety of
Windows programs working.  While WineTools does not directly include any
proprietary technology that I'm aware of, its sole purpose is
downloading and installing proprietary packages, most of which are made
by Microsoft, in order resolve many dependency concerns for Windows
software.  This is definitely not something that belongs in Core or Extras.

-- 
Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
nman64 at n-man.com

www.n-man.com
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