As I see it, Fontforge was never the problem. The problem was that it was necessary to read the code to find out that there even was such a dependency. This was especially true of the Red Hat binaries. There was no notice or documentation that they would use Fontforge. I didn't find out until I started playing with Fontforge and had Wine crash as a result. It doesn't make any difference what the Wine dependencies are if: 1. They are documented. 2. I can find the dependent programs.