http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10324
--- Comment #19 from Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org 2008-03-21 17:34:34 --- (In reply to comment #18)
However, there's still one issue: $ rm -rf ~/.wine $ sudo ~/wine-git/tools/wineprefixcreate Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled. /home/austin/.wine updated successfully. $ sudo ~/wine-git/wine notepad
Still works fine. Not sure if that was by intention or not (I have the feeling it wasn't).
Yes, it is. There needs to be some way to work around the check if there's a good reason for it, and explicitly doing sudo wineprefixcreate is the way to do that. There's no reason for a user to run wineprefixcreate by itself, so it's not a problem to allow it.