[PATCH] [RFC] Make drive C always a "Local disk"

[David Gerard]

2009/3/8 King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com>:

> Drive C: is not necessarily the truly central drive. I have seen Windows
> installs that installed on D: and have C: as a permanently mounted network
> share. To assume that drive C: is always what it is... is blasphemy.
> However, Wine does make this assumption, and probably the patch would be
> appropriate. Just throwing that out there. However, I have also seen wine
> installs onto a network where the WINEPREFIX is a network share so that
> multiple people can use the same program.


This is true. I've seen a Windows box at work which has the system on
the E: drive and no C: drive at all. WHAT.

That said, is there any program in the world that would balk at
installing on C:?


- d.