Compiling wine i686 on x86_64 system

[Pasha R]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Fedora User <fedoradch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:33:35 +0200
> Pasha R <pashar.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Do you mind if I ask why? The 64-bit package works perfectly for
>> > things like TweetDeck and Picassa.
>>
>> Latest 64-bit wine packages require their 32-bit counterparts to be
>> installed, too.
>
> They don't take up much space; They don't compete with each other and
> they are necessary to run 32-bit programs like TweetDeck.
>
> Back around FC-2 or 3 (when it was "FC") I used to customize many, if
> not most, of the packages that I used frequently. I would even
> routinely re-work KDE and I always used a custom kernel.
>
> These days, Fedora has become so complex and dependencies so intricate
> that I avoid custom RPM's at all cost in order not to create issues
> when other packages are updated.

It really depends. I do recompile newest versions for some packages,
when it does not require too much to be updated. Specifically, wine
does not break anything else, but the fact that 32-bit packages can't
be build in the same way as 64-bit packages makes thing to be more
complicated.