Comment 278 for bug 371897
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(In reply to comment #166)
> Why do you assume a need for dropping winealsa.drv?
> If you really absolutely need to drop a driver to add a new one - drop the
> obsolete wineesd.drv in favor of the working winepulse.drv.
>
> EsounD is EOL and PulseAudio is it's replacement. PulseAudio isn't going to go
> away, especially not on the large desktop distros - even Skype and Adobe
> accepted that one.
Wine supports more than just Linux...Esound is the easiest way to get sound working on OpenSolaris, and perhaps others.
(In reply to comment #171)
> Sure, it's the nice way of doing it, but there are people waiting to use Wine.
> Those would really apreaciate a stop-gap solution like the working, existing
> winepulse.drv.
Like someone else pointed out earlier, stop-gap solutions are usually hacks, and when a hack is in place, people are rarely tempted to fix it properly. If you'd like a stop-gap solution, compile wine yourself with winepulse's driver.