loader: more stringent sanity check
Marcus Meissner
marcus at jet.franken.de
Thu Mar 20 18:28:34 CDT 2008
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:41:00PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> > I hope you are not seriously suggesting that we do this...
>
> Seriously.
>
> > I'm not at all convinced that we need even a warning, there doesn't seem
> > to be much concrete evidence that running as root is actually harmful,
>
> Many, many newbies are running wine as root without
> really needing to. They are much more likely to screw
> up their systems this way. Are you saying we should stop
> advising against this?
QUestion is ... Why do they do this?
Ciao, Marcus
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