I was chatting with Rudolf Kastl(che on #winehq) and he was mentioning the things that he was doing for the rpm package. One of the patches he applies to wine prior to packaging it is a patch that creates local user config files if they don't exist.
His patches modify wine/libs/wine/config.c and wine/misc/registry.c, I don't see the need to change things, they could do if Alexandre accepts them in the CVS. They would uniform wine packaging, and make things easier, also wine-c could be a comprssed dir as it's only usility would be to be copied to $HOME, it doesn't really need to be uncompressed in /usr/share. Of course, all packagers could just apply these patches to binaries, but official packages should just ship vanilla wine (Otherwise why call them "official"?), so this depends on Alexandre.
Ivan.