[Wine] Re: Winetricks gfw under root vs under user

[vitamin]

perryh wrote:
> What features, that wine needs, are provided by a local FS but not by NFS?

Don't remember exactly. Probably some mmaping with special sharing modes.


perryh wrote:
> Meanwhile, would something like this work?
> $ ln -s /var/wine/$USER/.wine ~

No, this won't work. Wine won't allow wineprefix be a symlink. But you can repoint Wine to a different one with 'export WINEPREFIX=/var/wine/$USER/.wine'.

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