Mike Hearn mike@theoretic.com writes:
The problem with this is that it's different to the layout used by the source installs, so giving tech support on #winehq etc becomes that much harder. It seems to be different simply for the sake of being different.
Actually there used to be a reason to do that, when dlls needed to be in the Unix library path to get loaded properly. The default was to add symlinks in /usr/lib, but it wasn't very clean to have a bunch of dlls in there so it made sense for packages to put everything in /usr/lib/wine instead and change ld.so.conf. However this is fixed now, and today there's no reason to change the standard layout.