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Add blurb about soft/hard dependencies to the Packaging Guide, based

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@ -42,6 +42,51 @@ for configurable values. Those terms are described here.
importance of WINDOWSDIR and convey this information and
choice to the end user.
DEPENDENCIES
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There are two types of dependencies: hard and soft dependencies.
A hard dependency must be available at runtime for Wine to function,
if compiled into the code. Soft dependencies on the other hand
will degrade gracefully at runtime if unavailable on the runtime system.
Ideally, we should eliminate all hard dependencies in favour of
soft dependencies.
To enable a soft dependency, it must be available at compile time.
As a packager, please do your best to make sure that as many soft
dependencies are available during compilation. Failing to have a
soft dependency available means that users cannot benefit
from a Wine capability.
Here is a list of the soft dependencies. We suggest packagers
install each and every last of those before building the package.
These libraries are not dependencies in the RPM sense. In DEB packages,
they should appear as "Suggests" or "Recommends", as the case may be.
* FreeType: http://www.freetype.org
This library is used for direct rendering of fonts. It provides
better support of fonts than using the X11 fonts engine. It is
only needed for the X11 back end engine. Used from GDI.
* Alsa: "http://sourceforge.net/projects/alsa (Linux only)
This library gives sound support to the Windows environment.
* JACK: http://jackit.sourceforge.net
Similar to Alsa, it allow Wine to use the JACK audio server.
* CUPS: http://www.cups.org
This library allows Windows to see CUPS defined printers.
* OpenGL
This is used for both OpenGL and Direct3D (and some other
DirectX functions as well) support in Wine. There are many many
libraries for providing this functionality. It is enough for one
of them to be available when compiling Wine. Wine can work with
any other library during runtime.
If no library is available, packagers are encouraged to compile
Wine with Mesa3D (http://www.mesa3d.org), which requires no
hardware support to install.
GOALS
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