[Request]: Remove "Select Dependencies"

TheEvilSkeleton commented 1 year ago

Tell us the problem or your need

At the moment, the "Select Dependencies" toggle changes the whole window. It is extremely laggy and slow, and can potentially introduce to crashes:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/50847364/192577318-89f4db90-f8de-47c7-aa2e-b32637894a80.mp4

Describe the solution you'd like

https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/2112#issuecomment-1259819990

Additional context and references

mirkobrombin commented 1 year ago

I think the whole feature should be removed. It is a very risky operation installing multiple deps in one row, e.g.:

the wineserver can goes down while processing one dep, invalidating all the next
some deps might incompatible with other deps, breaking the prefix in a non recoverable way if versioning is not enabled (despite the fine job we are doing on the background, it is not possible to prevent this, not without layers but that's a whole different topic which we will discuss soon in a metting)
some deps are very complex and Bottles does a lot of things in the background, if one dep breaks compatibility with another one the entire process may freeze breaking the prefix
some novice users can use all dependencies in one row because they think this is possible (we are actually allowing it), this in 99% of cases breaks everything and the user will blame Bottles

Korabel47 commented 1 year ago

Hi. Thanks for your efforts to make this app!

Although you had already closed this issue, may I know what workarounds exist helping to avoid manually clicking on every single dependence to install? Each of them takes approximately 2 mins to install - on my machine. I would appreciate a solution to speed up this process.

Best regards

MasterKia commented 11 months ago

Also see: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/documentation/pull/44

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