ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Tue Feb 10 10:44:05 CST 2009


Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> writes:

> That's not the (main) problem. The main problem is people installing
> stuff as root when they have no reason to do so.
>
> Alexandre, how would you feel about a one time warning, e.g., by
> setting a registry key, a la wineboot when run on a new/updated
> prefix.

No, a warning that will get drowned in a bunch of other fixmes is not
useful.

What we should really do is properly support installing as root,
i.e. having stuff go into a global prefix and being available to all
users.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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