[Wine] Re: confused newbie

[ChristTrekker]

austin987 wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:34 AM, ChristTrekker<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I assume "corruption" refers to various config files. Â So use a different wineprefix - just put binaries in a common place, using symlinks if this "binary path" isn't separately configurable. Â (~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files -> /usr/local/share/wine/Program\ Files) Â Executables aren't written to, so how would they be corrupted?
> > 
> 
> Depends on the executable. Most programs come with other files that
> are written to, e.g., ini files and the like.

Ahhh...  And since Windows wasn't designed as a timesharing OS with concurrent users in mind, it has single ini files rather than per-user ini files.  Is that what I'm hearing?  That would make sense.

But...  If I knew the deployment environment would only ever have one user at a time, would it be possible (and safe) to set up users to share a single wineprefix?  I can't help but think there's an alternative to installing the same app multiple times.