Automatically update default Wine flavor to its latest version; and also automatically update any game prefixes that have inherited from this default value

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Problem description

I'm always frustrated when I update a Wine flavor to a newer (higher) version and the game prefixes I've already created don't automatically switch to it, forcing me to change their configuration by hand. And I'm always even more frustrated when I uninstall the old, previously-set-as-default version and all the existing prefixes break apart until I manually intervene.

To reproduce:

1. Install the latest version of a Wine flavor, e.g. Wine-GE-Proton7-26
2. Set it as the default Wine in Settings -> Wine
3. Create a game's prefix; it'll automatically inherit the default Wine value, i.e. Wine-GE-Proton7-26
4. Update Wine to a newer (or simply different) version, e.g. Wine-GE-Proton7-27
5. Observation A: The default Wine version doesn't automatically switch; it remains Wine-GE-Proton7-26
6. Observation B: The previously created prefix doesn't automatically switch; it remains at Wine-GE-Proton7-26
7. Uninstall Wine-GE-Proton7-26
8. Observation C: The default Wine version switches to the system-wide Wine (e.g. 7.16 staging)
9. Observation D: The previously created prefix does not automatically switch, thereby breaking the game and requiring manual intervention.
10. Observation E: Even more frustratingly, if one goes to the game's settings, the Wine version shown is the new default but it's not applied until one manually switches to a different Wine flavor; otherwise, the game's selected Wine flavor remains as whatever it was set to when first created, as is evident by going to Library -> Select Game -> Tools

Feature description

In Lutris, whenever I update whatever Wine flavor I've set as default it automatically picks up the newest version and updates all Wine prefixes accordingly.

AFAICT, it probably maintains a priority list of Wine flavors and automatically sets them as default at whatever it can determine as their latest (i.e. highest) version. It does the same for prefixes; it doesn't set them to a specific version but to a specific flavor as well, so the prefix can always pick up and run the latest version of the selected flavor.

E.g., if I have set lutris-GE-Proton7-26-x86_64 as the default Wine, Lutris actually sets lutris-GE-Proton7 (or some such) as the default. If I then download lutris-GE-Proton7-27-x86_64, it will automatically pick it up and use that version as the default. But if I also download e.g. lutris-wine-7.2-2 it will set that as the default instead, presumably because lutris-wine has higher priority than lutris-GE-Proton7 in the internal priority list.

So what I'm asking for is the first half of this equation: allow us to set a Wine flavor instead of a specific version as the default, and whenever we download a newer version of that flavor have both the default and any prefixes that have inherited from that default switch to the new version automatically.

Also, you could/should provide a toggle in the game configuration options that allows us to lock a specific game's Wine flavor to a specific Wine version (e.g. because that game has regressed in newer Wine versions).

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