Le ven 18/06/2004 � 17:44, Alexandre Julliard a �crit : > "Dimitrie O. Paun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Let's remove it and see if people complain, and why they complain. > > We are likely to find real problems that need fixing anyway. > > That's easy, they will complain about the thing wineinstall takes care > of, like not having write access to the build tree, conflicts with the > installed rpm, missing ld.so.conf entry, etc. These things were added > to wineinstall precisely because many people complained about them. > > The alternative is to add all these checks in configure and the > makefiles, but then it annoys experienced users who know what they are > doing and get treated as if they didn't. I think having different > levels of hand holding for different users makes a lot of sense, and > wineinstall gives us that possibility.
./configure --without-hand-holding could skip over those tests, and they would be there for a straight ./configure. It wouldn't have to be very documented... Vincent
