299987 – "win64" use flag of app-emulation/wine is too destructive

Bug 299987 - "win64" use flag of app-emulation/wine is too destructive

Summary: "win64" use flag of app-emulation/wine is too destructive

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 296608

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Wine Maintainers

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Reported:	2010-01-07 01:56 UTC by Alexander Dubov
Modified:	2010-01-08 02:52 UTC (History)
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Description Alexander Dubov 2010-01-07 01:56:49 UTC

To my understanding, USE flags should modify minor aspects of the package behavior. "win64" flag of wine is different:

1. wine64 is not capable of running x86 application
2. wine64 will tag .wine user directory as "win64", essentially breaking it and forcing user to reinstall everything

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Emerge app-emulation/wine with win64 flag set.



Expected Results:  
Considering the above, I would like to suggest that wine64 will be set as a separate ebuild, mutually exclusive with wine32 and carrying the appropriate warning.

Better solution will be something akin to multilibs approach, whereupon two versions of wine are built and installed in different locations with distinctive default path names.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-01-08 02:52:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 296608 ***