http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #242 from Johan Walles johan.walles@gmail.com 2010-02-17 02:36:29 --- (In reply to comment #239)
[Removing Pulseaudio] takes more knowledge than an "average user" has
"sudo aptitude purge pulseaudio" or equivalent is not difficult. There's a lot of trickier Wine configuration that is required to get apps working that is well outside what an "average user" can be expected to know.
On Ubuntu systems that removes ubuntu-desktop as well, leading to no end of future upgrade problems.
So that piece of advice would break lots of people's systems. Integrating the pulseaudio patches in Wine wouldn't.