On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Alexandre Julliard <julli...@winehq.org> wrote: > Austin English <austinengl...@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.
We could make it a popup warning, again, only on first run. > 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. IMHO, that's a separate issue, but something that we should do. -- -Austin