Re: loader: more stringent sanity check

[Marcus Meissner]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:41:00PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> > I hope you are not seriously suggesting that we do this...
>
> Seriously.
> > I'm not at all convinced that we need even a warning, there doesn't seem
> >  to be much concrete evidence that running as root is actually harmful,
>
> Many, many newbies are running wine as root without
> really needing to.  They are much more likely to screw
> up their systems this way.  Are you saying we should stop
> advising against this?

QUestion is ... Why do they do this?

Ciao, Marcus