Questions about wine

[Tyler Aviss]

OSmesa is probably software rendering via Mesa3d (slow & not recommended if
you're using something with 3d)
On Jul 20, 2013 10:40 PM, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>   I'm looking at getting wine going for a Windows-only app.  I posted
> some questions on the Gentoo forum, but no response.  Is anybody here
> familiar with wine?
>
> 1) The latest Gentoo ebuild wine-1.6_rc4 (unstable) apparently should
> be "prelinked".  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml talks
> about a cron job to run prelink every so often, which seems like the
> wrong approach.  Wouldn't it make more sense to run it right after
> installing a program or doing any updates?  Are there any problems with
> running prelink on all programs?
>
> 2) I'm hazy about some of wine's options...  are "opencl" and "opengl"
> and "osmesa" recommended?  My onboard video chip (according to lspci) is
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd
> Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
>
> 3) LINGUAS supports both "en" and "en_US".  Is it recommended to enable
> both?
>
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
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