On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alexandre Julliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > and it's necessary in many cases. Refusing to run is clearly not an > option. That's why the override is provided. > If we really need to have something then it should be at most a one-time > warning (in a message box so people have a chance to see it) at > wineprefixcreate time, with an easy way to disable it. Then the newbies will just click past it. - Dan
