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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