https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37555
--- Comment #6 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- (In reply to Henri Verbeet from comment #3)
I suppose it might help to specifically mention "${notice_platform}development files", like most of the other messages for missing libraries and the like, instead of referring to "sound system" in general, although I'd also argue that that's implied by the message coming from configure.
The meaning is obvious to anyone with even a little bit of experience, which is probably why no one's ever brought it up before. But I know from having to explain it on the forum multiple times that it's not obvious to the newbiest segment. And really, the wording should be consistent with the wording of the other messages.
The harder problem is of course that we can't know if the user wants to use Alsa, OSS, CoreAudio, or perhaps in the future PulseAudio, which makes it hard to talk about a specific package.
I don't think that's necessary. Users are responsible for knowing what's on their system.