Comment 18 for bug 438365

I agree with the other posters that this is an unfortunate situation. Is there any way to provide an alternative, non-crippled version of Erlang/OTP that includes the wx module. erlang-wx is required for some useful programs.

Would it be possible to package up another erlang in universe using the alternatives system? I notice that there is a version of erlang-base with HIPE enabled, could something similar be done with wx?

I would be willing to devote time to such a project and even maintain such a package if someone would be willing to mentor me. I know I could just create a PPA, but I think this would be useful to enough users that it should really be part of the Universe repos.