https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39859
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--- Comment #10 from sworddragon2@aol.com --- (In reply to Sebastian Lackner from comment #1)
Is there any benefit compared to using Wines internal downloader?
I wonder why we actually have a downloader for these packages (do we provide the packages the Wine downloader fetches or does it download them from an external source? The startpost sounds like the latter is the case). Distributions like Ubuntu which are creating their own packages should normally provide these additional packages and link them from their Wine package. Users which are downloading/building Wine manually from here can also configure Gecko and Mono manually. If we decide to provide them additionally as packages things are getting even easier.
Are there actually any advantages of providing the downloader? At least it has several disadvantages as a few were already pointed out. Should the downloader eventually get removed once this ticket is fixed?
(In reply to Vincent Povirk from comment #3)
and if you're not paying attention Wine can time out and start the program before the prefix has been fully created.
With an unfinished prefix do you mean that just Gecko and Mono could be missing or that even more things can be missing while the application is already starting? If the latter is the case and it doesn't get fixed with this ticket I think it should get reported with its own ticket if not already done.