Re: wine overstepping the mark?

[Marcus Meissner]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:38:27PM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> I tried to compile wine-cvs on Gentoo and it got stopped during the  
> install stage with a sandbox violation.
>
> This is a gentoo feature protecting the system from software that steps  
> outside its own territory. It seems that wine is taking it upon itself 
> to  mod the mimetypes for the whole system.
>
> Is this an oversight or am I misreading it?
>
> Sorry the output got chopped but you get the picture.

Its the update-mime-database call I guess.

So yes, WINE might step out of the sandbox here.

Ciao, Marcus