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erlang package

  1. Bug #438365
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 438365

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 438365] Re: erlang should not depend on wxwidgets2.8

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 06:44:08PM -0000, Alessandro Sivieri wrote:
> Wouldn't be possible to create a separate package for the wx module? I
> mean, a dependency not installed by default, but still installable?

wx has to be available at package build time in order for erlang to build
against it. If erlang is in main, the only way to do this is for wx to be
in main, which it won't be.

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