On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Martin Gregorie <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There's no problem in having several separate directories pointed to by > $WINEPREFIX in the same user. I do it all the time. You only need a 3 or > 4 line bash script to set $WINEPREFIX to point to the setup you want to > run and then run wine. I have the impression that the more recent WINE > releases are expecting a Linux box to have multiple WINE apps installed > in separate prefixes because they seem to share more WINE code between > prefixes. > > A lot of tools (eg winetricks and playonlinux) work by creating separate wine prefixes for indivdual apps. It is indeed a common use case, though I haven't throughly tested what happens when you run them concurrently and spawn multiple wineservers.
