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I am just thinking out loud. Wouldn't it be better then to just share the reproducible recipes similar to sharing Dockerfiles? For wine, specifically, it could be similar to just using FROM wine-1.23. As long as we keep the recipes maintained and "pinned" to their old dependencies.

I think this could work as a translation layer because containers already abstract away everything on syscall level.

There must be just a GUI for that, which can create multiple sandboxes easily, per application, and remember what you configured and installed there (and add it to the Winefile).

In regards to the sharing serials problem: You can easily diff the .reg file that wine adds there and if anything pops out in \\software, you can assume this is a custom field and offer it as an environment variable for the container?






This is similar to what Bottles [1] does, it uses a YAML file to describe the installation instructions for a Windows app here's an example: [2].

[1] https://usebottles.com [2] https://github.com/bottlesdevs/programs/blob/main/Games%2Fit...




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