http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages The Wiki's Recommended Packages list contains a lot of incorrect recommendations. I have already cleaned up the Debian section, but there seems to be a lot of copy/paste that spread the bad information to the RPM distros. So we'd need volunteers for pruning and updating these lists for Fedora and RHEL / WBEL. Here's a list of the suspicious or downright bad package recommendations I spotted: * audiofile-devel This is a library for accessing audio files. Wine does not use it. Maybe it was confused with AudioIO (which is not used on Linux anyway). * e2fsprogs-devel Why would Wine need ext2fs tools? * expat-devel We use libxml2, not expat. * glib2-devel That's not the glibc. That's a Gnome library which Wine never used. * isdn4k-utils-devel Maybe this is for libcapi20? * krb5-devel As far as I know we don't use Kerberos in Wine (or it's experimental code that is not enabled in the mainline). * libao-devel Wine does not use libao. Instead it has backends for most of the audio systems out there, although there's always a new kid on the block that's missing. * libmng-devel That's for MNG files, the moving version of PNG files. But what we use is libpng, not libmng. * libusb-devel Wine did use libusb at one point but now it's using libhal. * libogg-devel * libvorbis-devel We don't use those. * libxml, libxml-devel We use libxml2, not the deprecated libxml1. Now, maybe some distributions use 'libxml-devel' as the package name for libxml2 but this should be clarified, especially since libxml2-devel is mentionned too. * qt-devel That's QT, the toolkit used by KDE. Wine has never used it. * libXxf86dga-devel As far as I can tell we don't use libXxf86dga anymore. * opencdk-devel, libgpg-error-devel, libgcrypt-devel These are all related to GPG. We have nothing to do with GPG so we don't need them. * libXft-devel Wine uses FreeType and fontconfig but not libXft as far as I know. * gnutls-devel I believe we used GNU TLS at some point but now we use OpenSSL. * cyrus-sasl-devel Cyrus SASL also has to do with cryptography but as far as I can tell we never used it. * libieee1284-devel For parallel port access. Not used as far as I can tell. * libXmu-devel Contains 'miscellaneous utility convenience functions for X libraries to use'. I don't think Wine uses it. -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ RFC 2549: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service