New subject: [Bug 41490] Stop recreating/resetting symlinks on each update (eg "drive_c /users/[user]/My Documents")

11 Oct 2016


      https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41490
Bug ID: 41490
           Summary: Stop recreating/resetting symlinks on each update (eg
                    "drive_c/users/[user]/My Documents")
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.9.20
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: cey.tarik@gmail.com
      Distribution: ---
Every time after updating wine through my distro's (Arch) repository, wine will
"update the configurations". This also means that wine will reset the symlinks
in the user's folder (drive_c/users/[username]). For example, "My Documents".
I do not want wine apps to pollute my home folder (this is were "My Documents"
and other symlinks usually point to). And i want all my WINEPREFIXEs to use a
common "My Documents" folder, which is not ~/ .
That's fine, so i just symlink "My Documents" to somewhere else.
But after each update Wine deletes my symlink and creates it's own symlink to
~/ again.
Why? Is that really necessary? This seems trivial to fix, so unless there is
some exotic issue preventing this to be changed, i really do not understands
why this has to happen every time.
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