From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j47NZcus024575 for ; Sat, 7 May 2005 23:35:39 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUYpf-0005FV-DE for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 23:35:39 +0000 Received: (qmail 1794 invoked from network); 7 May 2005 19:35:14 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 7 May 2005 19:35:14 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for windows apps under wine? Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 19:37:40 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050507203254.64DB1241EE2@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20050507203254.64DB1241EE2@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505071937.40866.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 8a1a06f8-68d6-4b7a-b4dc-b98f1e1b2466 X-Archives-Hash: 2bfb4f8dab9ae75786c8af4dc0d9b7ca On Saturday 07 May 2005 04:32 pm, aeriksson@fastmail.fm wrote: > Are there any plans for supporting ebuilds for windows apps which use > wine? I just installed wine (via the ebuild) to enable DVDShrink to > be installed. Worked like a charm, but it would have been much cooler > to 'emerge dvdshrink' and have wine pulled in as a dependancy. > > I realize there's a ton of stuff to take care of, but since the newer > windows version support 'sharing apps' among multiple user accounts, > there just might be a way to make them root-owned, or some such... > > Anyone done any thining in this area? although i think it's a pretty neat idea, i dont think it belongs in the normal tree ... if it was, users would just come to us everytime wine and/or the app crashed and frankly, i dont want that crap maybe something the breakmygentoo guys could pick up ? an external rsync tree which is just windows apps you can run under wine would be pretty cool -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list