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Since wine can run x86 on x86_64, I had no need for the multilib repo, except for winetricks. It does not depend on anything x86 and the PKGBUILD also says it is x86_64. Is there a reason that it is in multilib and not extra, where wine is?
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On first glance I don't see a compelling reason for it to be in there either.
You could open an appropriate issue on the bug tracker.
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Since wine can run x86 on x86_64, I had no need for the multilib repo
then you misunderstand multilib in the first place
a x64 system can run x64 software only as the cpu is setup in x64 mode on boot
to execute x86 binaries
- the kernel has to have the required multilib option enabled
- a context switch from x64 mode to x86 mode is required during runtime
so whenever you want to run ANY 32-bit software you need the multilib repo as it contaibs the required base libs to support 32-bit binaries - without them you would just get an error
as for why winetricks is in multilib? my guess: because up until recently the default architechture of a new wine prefix was 32-bit - at least unless the arch was specified as x64
so it's possible whoever made this choice did so because back then it made sense
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so whenever you want to run ANY 32-bit software you need the multilib repo as it contaibs the required base libs to support 32-bit binaries - without them you would just get an error
Wine now runs the vast majority of 32-bit windows software succesfully in a 64-bit environment and was moved from multilib to extra.
Note that steam-proton is a downstream fork of wine but hasn't switched to the new method so still needs multilib / lib32-* packages .
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clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky
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A bit of info about wow64, if interested (wine release link is there) https://archlinux.org/news/transition-t … e-staging/
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/3 Turns out, it was asked once, and closed with the verdict of "let's wait it out"
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