Bug 1095715 - Remove dependency on erlang-wx from erlang-debugger
Summary: Remove dependency on erlang-wx from erlang-debugger
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: erlang
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Lemenkov
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 784693 1161922
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-05-08 12:26 UTC by Peter Lemenkov
Modified: 2026-03-07 13:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-03-07 13:38:57 UTC
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Description Peter Lemenkov 2014-05-08 12:26:41 UTC
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Comment 1 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 15:47:14 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

Comment 2 Peter Lemenkov 2026-03-07 13:37:03 UTC
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) 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.


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