diff --git a/Config.in.legacy b/Config.in.legacy
index 895e42fc30..b150e40206 100644
--- a/Config.in.legacy
+++ b/Config.in.legacy
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2025.11"
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID_WMGUI
+	bool "cwiid wmgui has been removed"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  The wmgui part of cwiid required libgtk2, which has been
+	  removed from Buildroot.
+
 config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_EXT_AUFS
 	bool "Aufs Filesystem Module patch has been removed"
 	select BR2_LEGACY
diff --git a/package/cwiid/Config.in b/package/cwiid/Config.in
index 44148eb188..0c1a97402a 100644
--- a/package/cwiid/Config.in
+++ b/package/cwiid/Config.in
@@ -14,20 +14,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID
 
 	  https://github.com/abstrakraft/cwiid
 
-if BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID
-config BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID_WMGUI
-	bool "wmgui"
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4 # libgtk2 -> pango -> harfbuzz
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9 # libgtk2 -> pango -> harfbuzz
-	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_XORG7 # libgtk2
-	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libgtk2 -> libglib2
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # libgtk2 -> libglib2
-	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # libgtk2 -> libglib2
-	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # libgtk2 -> pango
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGTK2
-endif
-
 comment "cwiid needs a toolchain w/ dynamic lib, threads, wchar, headers >= 3.18"
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SYNC_4
 	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || \
diff --git a/package/cwiid/cwiid.mk b/package/cwiid/cwiid.mk
index a11c56c0aa..e552da3b46 100644
--- a/package/cwiid/cwiid.mk
+++ b/package/cwiid/cwiid.mk
@@ -17,13 +17,6 @@ CWIID_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf host-bison host-flex bluez5_utils
 # Disable python support. This disables the 2 following things:
 #   - wminput Python plugin support
 #   - cwiid Python module
-CWIID_CONF_OPTS = --without-python --disable-ldconfig
-
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_CWIID_WMGUI),y)
-CWIID_DEPENDENCIES += libgtk2 libglib2
-CWIID_CONF_OPTS += --enable-wmgui
-else
-CWIID_CONF_OPTS += --disable-wmgui
-endif
+CWIID_CONF_OPTS = --without-python --disable-ldconfig --disable-wmgui
 
 $(eval $(autotools-package))