http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28040
--- Comment #3 from Andrew Eikum aeikum@codeweavers.com 2011-08-10 11:03:53 CDT --- That's the same as option 1, really. It will still run into the dropped sound bug. I guess maybe that's preferable to no sound, and is certainly easy to add. I don't really relish having to dismiss bug reports from people with broken alsa-plugins versions, though.
On systems where PA is "installed but disabled," I expect that the ALSA config tree won't have "pcm.<device>.type=pulse", which the workaround checks for. If it does, then that's really someone else's bug.