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Title: app-emulation/wine split and slotting
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Author: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org>
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Content-Type: text/plain
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Posted: 2017-04-10
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Revision: 1
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News-Item-Format: 2.0
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Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine:0
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Starting with Wine 2.0, Wine in Gentoo is transitioning away from its
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traditional packaging and toward a new, split and slotted, Wine.
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As many Wine users know, there are often regressions or an application
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works better on one version of wine than another. Going forward,
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packaging in Gentoo will allow simultaneous installation of multiple
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versions of Wine.
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Additionally, to expedite vanilla releases as well as permit multiple
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configurations for each Wine installation, the major patchsets have
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been split out into separate packages.
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Going forward, app-emulation/wine will transition to:
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app-emulation/wine-vanilla: upstream Wine with no external patchsets
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(like if the old packaging forced USE="-staging -d3d9")
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app-emulation/wine-staging: Wine with Wine-Staging's patchset
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(like if the old packaging forced USE="+staging -d3d9")
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app-emulation/wine-d3d9: Wine with Ixit's Gallium Nine patchset
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(like if the old packaging forced USE="-staging +d3d9")
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app-emulation/wine-any: Wine with any of the patchsets or flags
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(exactly like the old packaging regarding USE flags)
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wine-any exists to allow the user to build any combination that they'd
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like (like the old packaging). This means the user could use wine-any
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to use both Wine-Staging and Gallium Nine. Alternatively, the user
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could use wine-any to try out another configuration from other
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packages. For example, the user could build wine-vanilla without
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PulseAudio, and could build wine-any with PulseAudio. The sky is the
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limit on how a user may choose to use app-emulation/wine-any.
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Users may opt for any specific package, or may emerge virtual/wine,
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which is provided for dependency resolution.
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Maintainers: Please note, app-emulation/wine will be dropped, so
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please use virtual/wine going forward.
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Users may call each version specifically, or may call a symlink based
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on their installed patchset, for example wine-2.1, wine-staging-2.2,
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or wine-d3d9.
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Symlinks for wine are managed with app-eselect/eselect-wine.
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# eselect wine set wine-vanilla-2.0
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/usr/bin/wine -> /usr/bin/wine-vanilla-2.0
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# eselect wine set --staging wine-staging-2.4
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/usr/bin/wine-staging -> /usr/bin/wine-staging-2.4
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