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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) 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.