Re: RFC: reducing wasted disk space from addon files

[André Hentschel]

Hi,

just my two cents on it.

Can't we keep the shared stuff in the home directory? It would be 
user-wide instead of system-wide, but already a reduction and we 
wouldn't need to mess with access restrictions in /usr. Possible naming: 
$HOME/.wine-addons-gecko $HOME/.wine-addons-mono

Another idea would be to outsource this topic to steam or even better 
winetricks. Most filesystems in use support hardlinks, a winetricks verb 
with wine prefixes as arguments that hardlinks all gecko/mono stuff in 
them (if their shaXXX hash match) looks very easy and suitable to me and 
steam could use it too. That way the prefix remains transferable.