On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > "Juan Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Do we really need them in the registry at all? It would seem a lot > >> safer to load them directly from some system dir. > > > > The trouble is not knowing which is the correct system dir / file. It > > changes from distro to distro, from version to version. Guessing > > seems less safe (to me) than getting them from some known-good source, > > or from allowing the user to specify the correct source. > > As long as you don't try paths under /home, even a moderate amount of > guessing seems safer than storing them in a user-writable file. How > many different paths are there really?
This should be a configure-time parameter to be set by packagers in the distro specific manner. Seems like a "duh" to me. Wine won't be the first software set up like this. Cheers, Kuba
