> I am on Arch and I have POL installed with wine, wine_gecko, wine-mono.
OS and POL version ? please.
> Whenever I install a new application in POL it will re-download e.g. wine or wine-mono
> and then re-install for that given virtual drive.
There is a POL's cache folder, but i'm not 100% sure how it work.
> Why isn't POL using the wine-mono that I installed on my Archlinux OS with the package manager? It is already installed and always up-to-date.
This is not how POL work. User guide: http://wiki.playonlinux.com/index.php/Main_Page
> Also the downloads through POL are sometimes very slow or don't even work at all.
I confirm, there is currently a slowness issue with the website.