... Is there somebody out there who can tell my why it is so good to compile Wine yourself? There are binaries on winehq for almost every version, architecture, distribution and packet manager. And these install also default .wine directories during first startup with reasonable defaults for the specialities of the distribution they are for.
For the general user, there probably is no longer a good reason to compile. Once upon a time, when the docs were written, Wine was compiled with a number of hard dependencies such as cups vs lpr printing and alsa vs oss sound. Compiling ensured that Wine matched your system. At least some of these dependencies are now determined at run time, and also Linux systems are becoming more standardized (does any Linux system still use lpr?).
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