[Bug 589] New - ETCDIR environment var needed and other changes
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wine-bugs at winehq.com
Thu Apr 18 22:07:52 CDT 2002
http://bugs.codeweavers.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589
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+ +============================================================================+
+ | ETCDIR environment var needed and other changes |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | Bug #: 589 Product: Wine |
+ | Status: UNCONFIRMED Version: unspecified |
+ | Resolution: Platform: |
+ | Severity: normal OS/Version: All |
+ | Priority: P1 Component: wine-loader |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | Assigned To: wine-bugs at winehq.com |
+ | Reported By: wine_bugtracking_account at dias.com.br |
+ | CC list: Cc: |
+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | Milestone: TargetMilestone: --- |
+ | URL: |
+ +============================================================================+
+ | DESCRIPTION |
+ right now wine has a WINEPREFIX env var to deal with the user config location.
+ however it does not a place to deal with a global configuration (read register).
+
+ Why this is important?
+
+ with this it will pbe possible to keep individual "fake-windows" trees
+ with specialized programs installed.
+
+ With this one program will not interfere with anothers instalation.
+
+ However after installation each program will have its set of register created by
+ the installer and needed to be run.
+
+ Changing WINEPREFIX is not an option because changes made by the user will not
+ reflect into his personal reg files (~/.wine).
+
+ An alternative solution (maybe more interesting) would be to let wine use a
+ text dat file in the c:\windows\system.dat file instead of the binary windows
+ format.
+
+ with this, the loader would read the c:\windows\system.dat text file first,
+ then the global one (/etc/wine.systemreg) and update with the users setting
+ in ~/.wine/*.reg .
+
+ Hey, it would be nice to be able to control the loading order from the
+ command line and the C: path too.
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