"Gerhard W. Gruber" sparhawk@gmx.at writes:
Maybe it went a bit unnoticed because of the many mails the licence issue generated, or then again, maybe the bootprocedure is not that important to most. :) The only response I got was that performance could be a consideration, which I think wouldn't be a problem and another one was that wine shouldn't be forced to reboot entirely in order to make it happen. So if nobdoy has a real objection why this shouldn't be done, then I implement it as I see fit to be most userfriendly (performance is always my consideration so I don't need to mention it explicitly here).
Well, if you discard all objections as "not real" then of course there isn't a real objection. But the two mentioned seem very real to me. Another one is that you need to be able to control when bootup processing happens, and this is a policy decision that doesn't belong in the lowest layers. This is why we need a separate app, which can be launched when some higher layer decides it's the right time.