Bug 1095727
| Summary: | Remove dependency on erlang-wx from erlang-reltool | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov> |
| Component: | erlang | Assignee: | Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | erlang, lemenkov, rhbugs, s |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2026-03-07 13:41:25 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 784693, 1161922 | ||
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Description
Peter Lemenkov
2014-05-08 12:33:40 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle. Changing version to '22'. More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22 Closing this ticket. The original motivation was to enable a trimmed-down Erlang runtime without GUI dependencies (wx/wxWidgets) for server-oriented deployments like CentOS/EPEL. Since then, the situation has changed significantly: 1. We now ship a full Erlang distribution in CentOS via the Messaging SIG, so the "no GUI deps" constraint no longer applies to the primary use case. 2. Splitting these packages into base and -gui subpackages would add significant spec complexity and ongoing maintenance burden for a use case nobody has requested in over 10 years. 3. These applications (debugger, dialyzer, et, observer, reltool) are tightly coupled to wx in upstream OTP — separating the GUI components cleanly would require ongoing downstream effort with each Erlang release. No external requests or duplicates have been filed since 2014. If a need arises in the future, this can be revisited. |