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RE: TF2 Horrid Performance
by John-Michael Fischer on Friday June 6th 2008, 14:40
Yes Gentoo's package manager is called Portage. Portage compiles everything from source unless you specifically ask for a binary package. Thus typing emerge wine installs wine on my machine from source.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebuild
I keep an eye on the release notes of new versions of wine but if there was a config change or a process/launch change I missed and should be using/calling wine differently I'm happy to try things out.