On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Scott Ritchie scottritchie@ubuntu.com wrote:
As an update for the Ubuntu packages, I have opted for modifying the package rules rather than patching wine. As a general rule I like to minimize the number of patches to upstream in my packages. I would still recommend applying Andre's patch upstream as it provides some consistency with the way the rest of Wine operates, but it's no big deal.
I think it's consistent with the rest of Wine as it is now. We generally don't load dependencies dynamically if the dll would be completely useless without them (e.g. openal32, mscms, winex11, every sound driver). Openal at least is truly optional, in that Wine should be just as compatible without it (it's not part of Windows, so all Windows apps that need it should ship with a usable native version).