[Bug 19182] Allow to completely disable MIME-type and application integration

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Wed Aug 1 12:28:53 CDT 2012


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19182

--- Comment #50 from Artem S. Tashkinov <t.artem at mailcity.com> 2012-08-01 12:28:53 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #47)
> Well I am not a coder, but maybe I should try. May I ask why are such patches
> vetoed ? They ruin wine for everybody? 

There's a certain policy (code style, code cleanness, adherence to Wine
development principles, etc.), there's a certain vision and there's certain
person (Alexander) who has his own understanding of where Wine's going. Some
patches happen to be in opposition with the mentioned things.


> Wine is pushing integration too hard - for example mountig home dir is quite a
> security risk. Why is that?

Like it's already been mentioned any Windows application can access anything
your Unix user account can. To make things worse, Wine allows Windows
applications to run Unix commands (so, if you have passwordless 'sudo su -'
then a Windows application can potentially do pretty much anything with your
computer).

Wine has never been meant to be a sandbox. If you care about security, you must
check all your windows applications with the antivirus software, and ideally
you should run them under a separate user account/sandbox/virtual machine.

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