loader: more stringent sanity check

[Dan Kegel]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com> wrote:
>  >>  If we really need to have something then it should be at most a one-time
>  >>  warning (in a message box so people have a chance to see it) at
>  >>  wineprefixcreate time, with an easy way to disable it.
>  >
>  > Then the newbies will just click past it.
>
>  Put in a timer forcing the people to read it for 10 to 20 seconds. If
>  they click past that and still go on ... *shrug*. Welcome to the real
>  world: they are screwed already so let them screw them self up a little
>  bit more if they want.

We want to minimize power user annoyance
while also minimizing newbie system damage
and number of posts in wine-users saying "never run wine as root".

Four ideas are on the table:
- do nothing (but then wine-users is intolerable)
- just tell people in wine-users "don't tell people to not run wine as
root" (but that's poor practice)
- have wine abort (possibly with a gui warning) if run as root without
--nosanitycheck (but that might annoy power users)
- same, but put the check in wineprefixcreate (but newbies might bypass this)

Although I suspect users will just bypass the check if it's
only in wineprefixcreate, I'll code up that approach, it's
better than nothing, and Alexandre might go for it.
- Dan