wine on x86_64? (was: rawhide report: 20070604 changes)

[dragoran]

Niels Weber wrote:
> 2007/6/4, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>:
>> it seems that now x86_64 builds are available for ubuntu/debian, see:
>> http://winehq.org/site/download-deb
>> and in wine release notes for 0.9.38 there is in particular
>>   - Many 64-bit compilation fixes.
>> so it seems actively followed by upfront.
>> Is there any plan to have a 64 bit build so that we can avoid at all
>> the annoying i386 dependencies for our best-of-all fc7-fc8?
>>
>> I'm getting rid of the most i386 packages, after passing from rawhide
>> to fc7 (see past multilib dependency problems), but it seems that wine
>> carries with itself many other ones....
>
> The way I understand this is that a 64bit wine wouldn't help you much
> as most Windows applications are 32bit and you would only be able to
> run 64bit Windows programs under a 64bit wine.
>
correct..
a 64bit wine is useless at this time ...