On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Jan Hoogenraad jan-winehq@h-i-s.nl wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/issues/detail?id=127 "want uninstall"
Could this useage (use winetricks ONLY on a relatively empty .wine directory to troubleshoot) be documented on every place in the winetricks documentation directories ?
That's not quite true; it works perfectly fine on big .wine directories. It's just that they're not such a great idea, each additional thing you install has a chance to screw up the things already installed, and that has nothing to do with winetricks.
This is not the way the documentation feels at: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks
e.g. a short point explaining this, and that there is NO way to remove winetricks will help here.
OK, I added a note about it towards the bottom of the page.
At this point, even the Ubuntu standard wine packaging includes winetricks. This leaves end-users with the impression that they are integral part of wine, and thus maintained.
Winetricks is maintained; the lack of uninstall doesn't mean it's unmaintained.
Wine has been maturing. I now have a stable Windows environment, which required a few winetricks a year ago. This was then reasonable. I really will not anymore remove the .wine directory to delete all installed applications including keys & settings.
If I can help with starting an uninstaller, I am willing to put in some time: A helpful step for me as a user would be to begin with a few cases that can simply be implemented (e.g. cc580, which I could remove recently due to a bug fix).
I also see some application-like entries (7zip, firefox, gecko, python, vlc, wmp) where the package uninstaller may work.
If you or anyone else wants to submit patches to implement a way to uninstall things, please go ahead. The user interface would be a challenge, though. I'd rather not have an uninstall verb for each regular verb. - Dan