docu update

Vincent Béron vberon at mecano.gme.usherb.ca
Fri Jun 18 18:26:23 CDT 2004


Le ven 18/06/2004 à 17:44, Alexandre Julliard a écrit :
> "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun at rogers.com> writes:
> 
> > Let's remove it and see if people complain, and why they complain.
> > We are likely to find real problems that need fixing anyway.
> 
> That's easy, they will complain about the thing wineinstall takes care
> of, like not having write access to the build tree, conflicts with the
> installed rpm, missing ld.so.conf entry, etc.  These things were added
> to wineinstall precisely because many people complained about them.
> 
> The alternative is to add all these checks in configure and the
> makefiles, but then it annoys experienced users who know what they are
> doing and get treated as if they didn't. I think having different
> levels of hand holding for different users makes a lot of sense, and
> wineinstall gives us that possibility.

./configure --without-hand-holding could skip over those tests, and they
would be there for a straight ./configure. It wouldn't have to be very
documented...

Vincent





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