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erlang package

  1. Bug #438365
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 438365

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

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:50:19PM -0000, Andrey Pampukha wrote:
> Could you please point me somewhere where I can find out which packages
> in main depend on erlang?
> I suppose that's couchdb, but may be some other also?

$ grep-dctrl -FDepends erlang-base -a --not -FSource erlang -sPackage /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
Package: couchdb-bin
Package: rabbitmq-server
$

> Is there a chance that these dependencies will be broken ever?
> I mean, couchdb etc. will be removed from main?

On the desktop side, it would in fact be quite helpful if we had a couchdb
implementation that did not depend on erlang, because the erlang runtime
makes up a noticeable fraction of our CD size and is only used by one
component. But couchdb is not a trivial component to replace.

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