Gentoo
Gentoo is a source based distro which greatly simplified the way in which it customizes source code on a per-system basis. It is extremely easy to use version tracking, installation, and removal features in a way which is beneficial to Wine and its development and testing.
Note: If you choose to disable debugging support or use -fomit-frame-pointer or --hash-style=both when compiling Wine, do NOT report bugs to Wine Bugzilla or Application Database. Do not waste our time, as you have turned off the features that enable us to help you.
Installation:
To install the latest version marked as "stable" by Gentoo developers and maintainers:
# emerge wine
To install a newer version, not marked as "stable" yet:
# echo "app-emulation/wine" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge wine
Update:
To update Wine:
# emerge --sync # emerge --update wine
The sync command will reload your box with the latest version information, and the "emerge -u" command will upgrade to the latest version, if needed.
Re-Installation:
If you for some reason decided to delete a file critical to Wine functionality, simply re-run installation.
Removal:
# emerge --unmerge wine
Notes:
In order to run many games, OSS support is required. Wine will not be built with its OSS driver if you use -oss in your USE flags in make.conf. Using OSS with Wine is critical since this driver is more stable than its ALSA counterpart. It can also use ALSA's OSS emulation. Simply omit this flag.
To enable OSS run:
# echo "app-emulation/wine oss" >> /etc/portage/package.use
Or to enable it for all programs add oss to the USE section in /etc/make.conf.