Re: ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)

[Austin English]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Alexandre Julliard
 wrote:
> Austin English  writes:
> > That's not the (main) problem. The main problem is people installing
> > stuff as root when they have no reason to do so.
> >
> > Alexandre, how would you feel about a one time warning, e.g., by
> > setting a registry key, a la wineboot when run on a new/updated
> > prefix.
>
> No, a warning that will get drowned in a bunch of other fixmes is not
> useful.

We could make it a popup warning, again, only on first run.
> What we should really do is properly support installing as root,
> i.e. having stuff go into a global prefix and being available to all
> users.

IMHO, that's a separate issue, but something that we should do.