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FS#37480 - [playonlinux] make wine an optional dependency for playonlinux

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Silviu C. (silviucc) - Friday, 25 October 2013, 08:51 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 27 April 2014, 12:42 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
PlayOnLinux should not depend on wine or at least make it an optional dep. It can download and admin its own builds. There are some cases where using the latest wine build may not be recommended.

Additional info:
* package version(s): playonlinux 4.2.1-1


Steps to reproduce:
Try to install PlayOnLinux and it also drags in wine.
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Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Sunday, 27 April 2014, 12:42 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Dependencies of wine are needed. The best way to ensure a working system is to keep wine in dependencies.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Sunday, 19 January 2014, 06:19 GMT
I don't think so. PlayOnLinux is pretty much unusable without wine installed on the system.
Comment by Silviu C. (silviucc) - Saturday, 15 March 2014, 22:05 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
Playonlinux works just fine without wine installed as a package. It will complain about it missing though. This does not hamper use if another wine version is installed/downloaded via PlayOnLinux.

Various wine versions can be downloaded and managed though the gui which uses python and WxWidgets. This part of playonlinux, does not need wine to function.
Comment by Silviu C. (silviucc) - Saturday, 15 March 2014, 22:28 GMT
One note: Installing the wine package is an indirect way to make sure that the libs that are required by wine itself are installed on the system. Otherwise some programs might not run at all. So it would require to add those (wine package's) dependencies to the playonlinux deps.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Tuesday, 22 April 2014, 13:13 GMT
As you said, the dependencies of wine should be installed on the system, so I think the best is to keep wine in dependencies, but you can install additional wine versions if you need.

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