>it makes it possible to run specific applications where a >substitute is impossible, such as the games you mentioned, software >which is the only option to interoperate with existing Windows-based >systems, applications targeting a specific field, and legacy or in-house >software.
You exposed the reasons for having wine better than I could. :) I mentioned bittorrent because i knew there are alternatives, but they are no match for the lightweight of utorrent. Also ZSnes may use SDL but it's source is anything but portable, as noted by Shawn. Anyway, wine and it's dependencies are a good addition for the repository because having them bring us a lot of applications, some of them exclusive. This message posted from opensolaris.org
