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oech3

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Creating package adds files to default wine prefix

I want create package emullates bahavior of winetricks for default wine prefix
(e,g, c:/Windows/System32/Drivers/gm.dls ).
I already found file path to `.cab` file from winetricks script which has files what I want to put.
But it seems `wine` does not have whole prefix at package side. Is this possible?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Creating package adds files to default wine prefix

Wine prefixes are under user home folders , packages are not allowed to touch those.

Please clarify what you want to achieve.

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oech3

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Re: Creating package adds files to default wine prefix

Is impossible or request to WineHQ your answer?
I want to omit running winetricks to modify prefixes at each update of wine.
And want to share gm.dls symlink with fluidsynth itself (even it is really small file).

(Someone may wants to integrate ttf-ms-win*-* to wine automatically with risks...)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Creating package adds files to default wine prefix

I want to omit running winetricks to modify prefixes at each update of wine.

What prefix modifications do you feel the need to re-apply after wine updates ?

And want to share gm.dls symlink with fluidsynth itself (even it is really small file).

If fluidsynth is setup correctly, wine prefixes should have access to midi devices without needing modification
This seems like a separate issue that might need its own thread (probably in Multimedia and Games board) .

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oech3

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Re: Creating package adds files to default wine prefix

About gm.dls, you are right.

want to omit running winetricks to modify prefixes at each update of wine.

This may false. I really use wine and remove prefixes frequently.

Ofcause, writing a custom script to generate prefixes is a solution (I just not want to have a script locally?).

oech3

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Re: Creating package adds files to default wine prefix

Is there any hook package to touch /usr/share/wine/wine.inf ?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Creating package adds files to default wine prefix

Wine doesn't have a mechanism to change settings in wine.inf globally .
Lutris seems to use registry keys to change settings, but that only works per prefix .

In theory you could build your own wine version that uses a custom wine.inf provided by you instead of the one coming from upstream.
A local script to setup prefixes the way you want them seems  a lot easier though.

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