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Chapter 2. Introduction

This document attempts to establish guidelines for people making binary
packages of Wine.

It expresses the basic principles that the Wine developers have agreed should
be used when building Wine. It also attempts to highlight the areas where there
are different approaches to packaging Wine, so that the packager can understand
the different alternatives that have been considered and their rationales.

2.1. Goals

An installation from a Wine package should:

  * Install quickly and simply.
   
    The initial installation should require no user input. An rpm -i wine.rpm
    or apt-get install wine should suffice for initial installation.
   
  * Work quickly and simply
   
    The user should be able to launch Solitaire within minutes of downloading
    the Wine package.
   
  * Comply with Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
   
    A Wine installation should, as much as possible, comply with the FHS
    standard.
   
  * Preserve flexibility
   
    None of the flexibility built into Wine should be hidden from the end user.
   
  * Come as preconfigured as possible, so the user does not need to change any
    configuration files.
   
  * Use only as much diskspace as needed per user.
   
  * Reduce support requirements.
   
    A packaged version of Wine should be sufficiently easy to use and have
    quick and easy access to FAQs and documentation such that requests to the
    newsgroup and development group go down. Further, it should be easy for
    users to capture good bug reports.
   
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