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| author | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100 |
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| committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100 |
| commit | 4f2d7949f03e1c198bc888f2d05f421d35c57e21 (patch) | |
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reinit the tree, so we can have metadata
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diff --git a/metadata/news/2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine/2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine.en.txt b/metadata/news/2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine/2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..da288f518798 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine/2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Title: app-emulation/wine split and slotting +Author: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2017-04-10 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: app-emulation/wine:0 + +Starting with Wine 2.0, Wine in Gentoo is transitioning away from its +traditional packaging and toward a new, split and slotted, Wine. + +As many Wine users know, there are often regressions or an application +works better on one version of wine than another. Going forward, +packaging in Gentoo will allow simultaneous installation of multiple +versions of Wine. + +Additionally, to expedite vanilla releases as well as permit multiple +configurations for each Wine installation, the major patchsets have +been split out into separate packages. + +Going forward, app-emulation/wine will transition to: +app-emulation/wine-vanilla: upstream Wine with no external patchsets + (like if the old packaging forced USE="-staging -d3d9") +app-emulation/wine-staging: Wine with Wine-Staging's patchset + (like if the old packaging forced USE="+staging -d3d9") +app-emulation/wine-d3d9: Wine with Ixit's Gallium Nine patchset + (like if the old packaging forced USE="-staging +d3d9") +app-emulation/wine-any: Wine with any of the patchsets or flags + (exactly like the old packaging regarding USE flags) + +wine-any exists to allow the user to build any combination that they'd +like (like the old packaging). This means the user could use wine-any +to use both Wine-Staging and Gallium Nine. Alternatively, the user +could use wine-any to try out another configuration from other +packages. For example, the user could build wine-vanilla without +PulseAudio, and could build wine-any with PulseAudio. The sky is the +limit on how a user may choose to use app-emulation/wine-any. + +Users may opt for any specific package, or may emerge virtual/wine, +which is provided for dependency resolution. +Maintainers: Please note, app-emulation/wine will be dropped, so +please use virtual/wine going forward. + +Users may call each version specifically, or may call a symlink based +on their installed patchset, for example wine-2.1, wine-staging-2.2, +or wine-d3d9. + +Symlinks for wine are managed with app-eselect/eselect-wine. +# eselect wine set wine-vanilla-2.0 +/usr/bin/wine -> /usr/bin/wine-vanilla-2.0 +# eselect wine set --staging wine-staging-2.4 +/usr/bin/wine-staging -> /usr/bin/wine-staging-2.4 |