[arch-dev-public] Wine association, waht should we do?

[Eduardo Romero]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 09:06 +1000, James Rayner wrote:
> And just to clarify something...
> 1) KDE (not wine), just _alerted_ that there was an autorun available.
> So it's a KDE feature, not wine.
> 2) It only alerted that there's an autorun available (presumably
> checking for autorun.inf) but did not run it. You had to click OK to
> execute the autorun
> 3) It makes sense for wine to be bound to exe's. Exe's should be
> treated no different to any file type, as any file could possibly
> contain a danger. Don't click an exe you dont trust, like you wouldnt
> click a shell script or binary or any other file you don't trust the
> source.
> 
> So just to get things straight, no executable/autoruns are run without
> asking the user first. There's no real "consequences" to speak of,
> unless you're silly enough to click OK for a disc you don't trust.
> 
> And hey, it was kinda convenient.

Yeah, I kind of got that all, as I said for the 20th time, since I
didn't had much time to research on the situation I brought it up here
to see if developers thought it was a security thread. But we all know
by now that it is not. Thanks for your message anyways.