http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19182
--- Comment #38 from diafero@arcor.de 2010-12-17 13:03:09 CST --- (In reply to comment #37)
Why are you surprised if you just hide winemenubuilder from wine (so "wine: cannot find" it) rather than simply turn it off in the registry (prevent it from starting as a service) after running winecfg ~/.wine/system.reg or in (before running winecfg) /usr/share/wine/wine.inf
Both of your suggestions do not work: The registry key will be re-added after the next wine update (which triggers a prefix upgrade), and the file will be overwritten on the next "make install".