[Bug 31842] Make wine lose weight by cleansing redundant libraries and executives

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31842

--- Comment #6 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2012-10-01 05:50:53 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > OK, if this feature isn't going to be implemented, can I symlink all those
> > files into $WINEPREFIX (of course with every new wine release I will have to
> > (re-)synchronize new libraries and remove dead ones)? Will everything work?
>
> No, some apps write to them, when installing their own copy for instance.

Don't they call unlink() before overwriting the file?