[Bug 49865] Don't install Gecko by default

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49865

--- Comment #9 from Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> ---
(In reply to N from comment #8)
> Why winecfg can't install it in /usr/share/wine/gecko instead of
> WINEPREFIX?..

Hello,

For the same reason Wine can't write into /var/log: Only root (and accounts
with admin privileges) can write into /usr/share.

Wine has the same access as the user running it, but Wine MUST NOT be run as
root or it'll break wineprefixes and prevent applications from working, so it
can't install wine-gecko into /usr/share/wine itself. The admin has to do it.

It could be done at the packaging level but WineHQ.org currently doesn't
provide packaged wine-gecko, and none of the major linux distributions I know
of provide wine-gecko packages in UNIX-style installation.

Some distribution provide wine-gecko in MSI-style installation, but that
installs it in each wineprefix.

Regards.

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