install default config files to $PREFIX/share/wine
brettholcomb at charter.net
brettholcomb at charter.net
Tue Jan 6 08:55:31 CST 2004
Do you really mean / and not ~? I sure don't want my C: pointing at /. And if there are more than one user how do I keep their stuff separate. What about access permissions to / - a normal user doesn't have it to many places.
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> From: "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun at rogers.com>
> Date: 2004/01/06 Tue AM 09:44:05 EST
> To: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>,
> Marcus Meissner <marcus at jet.franken.de>
> CC: cmorgan at alum.wpi.edu, wine-devel at winehq.com
> Subject: Re: install default config files to $PREFIX/share/wine
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> On January 5, 2004 05:27 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > We will need a tool (maybe wineboot) to setup the initial drive config
> > according to the machine setup. A default config file is not going to
> > help with that anyway.
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> I'd say we just have a C: drive pointing to / (root). This setup
> is definitely the most user friendly, and the one most in the
> spirit of Unix (one large tree). A user of a Unix system will be
> most confortable with it, and it will create the least unexpected
> behavior.
>
> Thinking about this, I'm not even sure why we encourage people to
> define drives (by having a nice UI in winecfg)... What's wrong
> with only a C: drive by default? Power users have regedit :)
>
> --
> Dimi.
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