[Wine] SSE2 - Wine issue or not?

[James McKenzie]

On 1/27/11 1:59 AM, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> James Mckenzie<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>
>> Do you have ANY networked printers that can be accessed by your
>> system?  This will cause Wine to start VERY slowly ... this is
>> a known problem with the CUPS printer access system ... there
>> is not much that Wine can do about this.
> Is there some reason why Wine needs to communicate with CUPS _at
> all_ during startup?  I'd think it could wait until there is an
> actual need to print something (which will be "never" for many
> gamers).  Alternatively, do the "establish CUPS communication"
> work in a separate task or thread rather than holding the entire
> session hostage.
>
Submit a bug report asking for this.  Right now, Wine runs a printer 
check, just like Windows does (you ever wonder why it takes so long to 
boot up in a networking environment).

James McKenzie