On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Ben Klein <shackl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-malware-in-linux/ >>>> >>>> "Do not set the file association for Windows executables with Wine. >>>> This would enable running Windows executables in Wine by simply double >>>> clicking them." >> >> Yes, exactly. The default should be off, and it should be easy to >> turn on. > > And if we're willing to deal with an influx of users complaining why > it doesn't work like that any more, we should do it. We'd probably > also have to get all the package maintainers on board though.
Yes, this will require a modicum of consensus. We might decide to stay unsafe, or we might decide to make the bindings be in a separate package, so it's easier for admins to flip the switch. > My packaging process doesn't do anything that explicitly associates > Wine with exes, but I just tried opening an exe from Thunar and it ran > ... interesting. Debian, 1.1.15 Yep. - Dan