diff --git a/wine.changes b/wine.changes
index 7cfa2b6..22287cd 100644
--- a/wine.changes
+++ b/wine.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Nov 21 10:28:38 UTC 2016 - meissner@suse.com
+
+- downgrade requires of cabextract and unzip to recommends, so we can
+  use 32bit wine during build on reduced 32bit package sets.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Nov 12 13:36:14 UTC 2016 - meissner@suse.com
 
diff --git a/wine.spec b/wine.spec
index b3be12c..e71cae5 100644
--- a/wine.spec
+++ b/wine.spec
@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ Conflicts:      wine-gecko < 1.3
 %ifarch x86_64
 Requires:       %{name}-32bit = %{version}
 %endif
-# for winetricks:
-Requires:       cabextract
-Requires:       unzip
+# some recommends for winetricks:
+Recommends:     cabextract
+Recommends:     unzip
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 ExclusiveArch:  %{ix86} x86_64 ppc %arm