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-Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
+wine-staging (Wine Staging is the testing area of winehq.org)
-This is Wine patched on the fly with the staging patches, which bring
-experimental but useful new Wine features such as PhysX support, EAX, and
-more.
+It contains bug fixes and features, which have not been integrated
+into the development branch yet. The idea of Wine Staging is to
+provide experimental features faster to end users and to give
+developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before
+they are integrated into the main branch.
+
+Wine Staging is maintained as a set of patches which has to be applied
+on top of the corresponding Wine development version. Package
+maintainers can decide if they want to include our full patchset, or
+only want to cherry-pick patches for specific bugs
NOTE: At the moment, it only compiles a 32-bit version of Wine, this may
change in the future with the ability to compile both 64-bit and 32-bit
@@ -11,13 +18,13 @@ version of Wine. You'll need a multilib system in order to compile this.
While this is list as a separate package, this WILL overwrite your normal
Wine binaries! Please keep this in mind.
-Compile options/Optional dependences (keep in mind, you need 32-bit libs of
-each):
+Compile options/Optional dependences (keep in mind, you need 32-bit libs
+of each):
See README.SLACKWARE for a giant list of dependencies.
XORG=YES|NO (default: YES), enable or disable Xorg
-ALSA=YES|NO (default: YES), enable or disable ALSA
+ALSA=YES|NO (default: YES), enable or disable ALSA
OSS=YES|NO (default: NO), requires oss
PULSE=YES|NO (default: NO), requires PulseAudio
CUPS=YES|NO (default: YES), enable or disable CUPS