On Monday 11 October 2004 07:17 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > I think that the question being asked is not so much which file you're > referring to, but rather, why are you using the source tarball rather > > than the Mandrake RPM found on the full display of the Sourceforge page. No, this was not the question. But to answer your implied question I quote from the Wine User Guide: quote: "To summarize, the "best" way to install Wine is to download Wine source code" " About binary package files: There's about a zillion reasons to not like them as much as you'd think: they may be outdated, they may not include "everything", they are not optimized for your particular environment (as opposed to a source compile, which would guess and set everything based on your system), they frequently fail to provide a completely configured Wine environment. " end quote. You might not agree with these quotes, but they are read by new users and are taken seriously. I personally don't take them seriously, but am sufficiently curious to find out first hand by trying to install from source. > The page section you linked to shows only the source tarballs; notice > the "show only this package" in the section copy below? The link you > gave is the "show only this package" link for the source tarballs. > I simply answered the question: "Could you indicate which page on winehq this came from?' > There is presumably a reason that the Wine project has compiled binaries > for all the major distributions, and the fact that they have gone to > that extra effort suggests that you would probably have better results > from the binaries for your distribution, rather than compiling from > source yourself. See above quotes. John _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
