diff --git a/wine.changes b/wine.changes
index 945ab0a..59d66d7 100644
--- a/wine.changes
+++ b/wine.changes
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
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 Tue Jan  7 08:09:39 UTC 2014 - meissner@suse.com
 
-- explicitly require alsa-plugins-pulse and alsa-plugins
-  for the x86 -32bit package, otherwise there would be no sound.
+- recommend alsa-plugins-pulse and alsa-plugins for the x86 -32bit
+  package, otherwise there would be no sound.
   bnc#857621
 
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diff --git a/wine.spec b/wine.spec
index 12a113d..08b10b6 100644
--- a/wine.spec
+++ b/wine.spec
@@ -156,8 +156,8 @@ echo "  +^/usr/bin/wine-preloader\$" >> %SOURCE7
 echo "  +^/usr/lib/wine/fakedlls" >> %SOURCE7
 grep SONAME_ config.log
 grep SONAME_ config.log|grep -v 'so"'|sed -e 's/^.*\(".*"\).*$/ requires \1/;'|sort -u >>%SOURCE7
-echo " requires \"alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit\"" >> %SOURCE7
-echo " requires \"alsa-plugins-32bit\"" >> %SOURCE7
+echo " recommends \"alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit\"" >> %SOURCE7
+echo " recommends \"alsa-plugins-32bit\"" >> %SOURCE7
 echo "%name-devel" >> %SOURCE7
 echo "  +^/usr/lib/wine/.*def" >> %SOURCE7
 cat %SOURCE7