On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 17:17, Thomas Dziedzic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> > wrote: >> The package-magician heftig managed to put together a wine-wow64 >> package which is currently in AUR and enables users to not only run >> 32bit Windows application on x86_64 Arch like bin32-wine but also 64bit >> Windows applications. >> Basically, it contains a 32bit and 64bit Windows environment to do this, >> a lot like native 64bit Windows installations do, in fact. >> > Great, more windows bloat in the community. > >> We'd like to see this package replace bin32-wine in community. It is >> currently rather untested and before moving we'd like to ask the Arch >> community to test it first. Before we ask for the test though we first >> wanted to hear the dear opinions of this mailing list's fine gentlemen. >> >> Sadly, using it also implies moving a bunch of lib32s and the cross32 >> chain into community. This will be a problem for some people. >> > I hate any kind of lib32-* package and moving more to community will > just make me grr. > >> To summarize: wine-wow64 is like bin32-wine but with the ability to run >> 64bit applications. >> > Aren't windows applications almost all 32bit? I remember reading > somewhere that most applications for 64 bit windows are still 32 bit. > >> -- Sven-Hendrik >> > It's not you, it's wine-wow64 :P >
Well, consider it from this perspective: The purposed wine-wow64 would (if it proves to reliably serve all purposes the other did) replace bin32-wine, which is now in [community]. And while you may dislike it, it's certainly better than a bin32-*!
