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Bug#595427: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries



On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 10:11:08AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Roman V. Nikolaev <rshadow@rambler.ru> wrote:
> >> Package name: winetricks
> >> URL:http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks
> >> Description: Quick and dirty script to download and install
> >> variousredistributable runtime libraries
> >
> > Do we really need a package for a single file?
> 
> Roman, you should rather file a bug to have that script included into
> the standard wine package.

It's a massive script, so the file count of 1 doesn't really matter.  Also,
it needs to update more often than wine proper, as it refers to outside
locations.

I'd vote for having it as a separate package.

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