Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: app-emulation/wine split and slotting

2017-04-10 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
> package wine-foo and wine-any (or whatever it is called) supports foo > as well. "-any" itself is arbitrary. Do you have a suggestion for a > better suffix? Why don't leave that "any" package just "wine" as it was before?..

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: app-emulation/wine split and slotting

2017-04-10 Thread NP-Hardass
On 04/10/2017 02:17 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On pon, 2017-04-10 at 13:52 -0400, NP-Hardass wrote: >> On 04/10/2017 01:31 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >>> So, the whole idea is that you can install vanilla and e.g. staging >>> side-by-side? >> >> That's 50% of it. The other 50% is that since Windows ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: app-emulation/wine split and slotting

2017-04-10 Thread Michał Górny
On pon, 2017-04-10 at 13:52 -0400, NP-Hardass wrote: > On 04/10/2017 01:31 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > So, the whole idea is that you can install vanilla and e.g. staging > > side-by-side? > > That's 50% of it. The other 50% is that since Windows applications > often are better supported in one v

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: app-emulation/wine split and slotting

2017-04-10 Thread NP-Hardass
On 04/10/2017 01:31 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > So, the whole idea is that you can install vanilla and e.g. staging > side-by-side? That's 50% of it. The other 50% is that since Windows applications often are better supported in one version or another, you can also have multiple versions installed

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: app-emulation/wine split and slotting

2017-04-10 Thread Michał Górny
On czw, 2017-04-06 at 21:18 -0400, NP-Hardass wrote: > Plan is to move the packages into the repo as masked shortly after final > approval of the news item. At that point, any testers would be greatly > appreciated. > > The split is a little confusing for those new to the concept and there > have

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: app-emulation/wine split and slotting

2017-04-10 Thread NP-Hardass
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[gentoo-dev] News item: app-emulation/wine split and slotting

2017-04-06 Thread NP-Hardass
Plan is to move the packages into the repo as masked shortly after final approval of the news item. At that point, any testers would be greatly appreciated. The split is a little confusing for those new to the concept and there have already been several internal revisions to help convey the purpo