[Wine] Winetricks gfw under root vs under user

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

"vitamin" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> itakingiteasy wrote:
> > ... i want to keep my /home mounted over NFS,
> > so how do i set C:\ volume to a 'Hard Drive' ?
>
> That won't fix anything. NFS does not support all features that
> local storage does.

What features, that wine needs, are provided by a local FS but not
by NFS?  (Serious question, maybe a workaround can be found.)

Meanwhile, would something like this work?
(Suppose /var is on a local drive.)

$ sudo mkdir /var/wine
$ sudo chmod 1777 /var/wine
# NOTE: Only the above two steps use sudo.
# The rest is as a normal user.
$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ mkdir -p /var/wine/$USER/.wine
$ ln -s /var/wine/$USER/.wine ~