[Wine] winetricks or not ?

[chourmovs]

we often say here directx installation can break wine
What about Dan kegel winetricks ?
It is safe to install microsoft distribuable package or it may break wine ?

What we can do, what we can't ?

For exemple, when wine console tell us msvcr80.dll is missing, what is better or safer:

- installing vcrun2005 via winetricks
- copy the missing downloaded dll in system32 ?

the both works for my particular case of course

Thank you