On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Jan Hoogenraad <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/issues/detail?id=127 "want uninstall" > > Could this useage (use winetricks ONLY on a relatively empty .wine directory > to troubleshoot) be documented on every place in the winetricks > documentation directories ?
That's not quite true; it works perfectly fine on big .wine directories. It's just that they're not such a great idea, each additional thing you install has a chance to screw up the things already installed, and that has nothing to do with winetricks. > This is not the way the documentation feels at: > http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks > > e.g. a short point explaining this, and that there is NO way to remove > winetricks will help here. OK, I added a note about it towards the bottom of the page. > At this point, even the Ubuntu standard wine packaging includes winetricks. > This leaves end-users with the impression that they are integral part of > wine, and thus maintained. Winetricks is maintained; the lack of uninstall doesn't mean it's unmaintained. > Wine has been maturing. > I now have a stable Windows environment, which required a few winetricks a > year ago. This was then reasonable. > I really will not anymore remove the .wine directory to delete all installed > applications including keys & settings. > > If I can help with starting an uninstaller, I am willing to put in some > time: A helpful step for me as a user would be to begin with a few cases > that can simply be implemented (e.g. cc580, which I could remove recently > due to a bug fix). > > I also see some application-like entries (7zip, firefox, gecko, python, vlc, > wmp) where the package uninstaller may work. If you or anyone else wants to submit patches to implement a way to uninstall things, please go ahead. The user interface would be a challenge, though. I'd rather not have an uninstall verb for each regular verb. - Dan
