Chris Robinson wrote: > On Saturday 26 April 2008 05:48:35 pm Vitaliy Margolen wrote: >> At a minimum all the created >> registry entries should not overwrite already existing ones. > > Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of having wineprefixcreate executed, > which is to update the registry? > > Not that I don't agree there could be a problem with just blindly > overwriting. > But blindly ignoring can be just as much of a problem. >
That's the problem of forcefully refreshing registry. If you don't do it - some old cruft will get in a way of new stiff. If you do - you removing perfectly good entries that user had there. However things like file associations should not be overwritten. Especially that they don't work after that: $ wine start image.jpg wine: configuration in '/home/vitaliy/.wine' has been updated. fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000500 Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file. ShellExecuteEx failed: Success Vitaliy.
