[Wine] Re: Photoshop CS2 Refuses to Install

vitamin wineforum-user at winehq.org
Thu Dec 10 08:55:26 CST 2009


GoremanX wrote:
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> vitamin wrote:
> > They are disabled for a reason. If you don't know how to edit them then you shouldn't be touching them in the first place.
> 
> Oh wow, that's a terrible statement. That's like "If you don't know how, then don't do it". Or "If you have to ask, you can't afford it". Highly unhelpful, especially in open source.

Users always find a way to break things. This was done to prevent number of invalid bugs filed in bugzilla because some noob broke their setup. So this is a filter for uneducated users - if you don't know how you probably shouldn't be doing it. And if you know - then you should be aware of complications



GoremanX wrote:
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> vitamin wrote:
> > No, NFS/CIFS doesn't support some things that are available on local mounts. And most of those things can't be emulated by Wine. Laing to an application will get you only so far.
> 
> 
> By that bizarre reasoning... isn't Wine just one big lie? We're essentially telling applications that Windows is there, even though it's not. EVERYTHING Wine does is a giant lie!

As DaVince said - lying about something that's not supported means applications will break in the most unexpected ways when they relay on absent feature. In this particular case, Steam (as another app that doesn't want to install on a network drive) won't work from NFS/CIFS because they don't support shared read/write memory mapped files. So lying about disk being local hdd will break Steam when it tries to start a game.







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