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Re: why wine 64 pulls tons of 686 deps
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Dag Wieers <[log in to unmask]>
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Dag Wieers <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:29:15 +0100
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Andrew Z wrote:

> i was thinking of installing Teamviwer, but it seemed to require either
> tons of 86 libs to satisfy it's rpm's dependecies or wine.

-snip-

> I'm curious why would it need 686 deps?

Because even the 64bit Windows provides 32bit compatibility, people expect 
the same from Wine. A pure 64bit Wine would be rather useless to most 
people.

Kind regards,
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-- dag wieers, [log in to unmask], http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, [log in to unmask], http://dagit.net/

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