On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel@kievinfo.com wrote:
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel@kievinfo.com writes:
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Again, please demonstrate the exact sequence that leads to an actual problem, not just vague hearsay of people reporting problems that may or may not have anything to do with this.
Will this work? BTW default Open SuSE configuration.
vitaliy@dragon:~ $export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-root vitaliy@dragon:~ $sudo wine winecfg root's password: wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'
As you can see it's creating a new prefix under /root, so it's not messing up the user's prefix. That's perfectly fine.
That part worked you are correct.
However X11 part didn't (missing $DISPLAY). And even if $DISPLAY would be defined in this case all programs will be installed into root's env not user's. No menu entries, no desktop links no visible installed programs - big problem for noob users "where did my stuff go"?
Vitaliy.
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.