sudo vs su in wineinstall

[Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)]

Hi guys, bug 4439 describes a problem where a machine (running ubuntu) 
does not install wine when using wineinstall due to the fact that su dos 
not work..

Just a couple of questions:

Is this the case (su not working) on all Ubuntu machines, or just 
something broken on that users' machine?

If it is the case on all Ubuntu machines, the user has mentioned that 
sudo does work.  sudo does require configuration prior to being used, 
but we could always add into the wineinstall script to configure sudo 
for the user, or we could ask the user to configure it themself, OR we 
could fall back to using su if the user answers no to having used 
sudo..  see below:


./tools/wineinstall

Warning: the wineinstall script installs wine using the sudo command.  
Have you ever used sudo on this machine before?
if (yes)
  continue as normal
else
  # either of these could work
  # option 1
  Would you like to have us try to configure sudo for you?
  # option 2
  User has not used or configured sudo, falling back to su
  WARNING: su may be broken on your machine, and therefore wine may be 
built but not installed.  If you are unable to run wine after this 
script completes, please login as root, and do 'make install' then login 
as your user again.

Of course we could always just add a configure check to see if su works, 
and if it doesnt, die with a warning about wineinstall not working 
because of that.

What do you think guys?

Tom