Bug#763675: mutter: FTBFS[kfreebsd]: undeclared dependency on libgbm-dev

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Steven Chamberlain!

Thanks for looking into this problem.

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 08:29:13PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> The mutter configure script demands libgbm-dev be installed.
> 
> mesa doesn't build a libgbm for kfreebsd, I'm not sure why.
> 
> Is mutter solely used for gnome-shell?  Should it be linux-any and
> simply removed from kfreebsd?

I'll just say that I won't stand in your way if you want the
packages removed on kfreebsd.

Please just make sure that the removal goes more smoothly then
last time! eg. deal with reverse dependencies (first).

If you install "ubuntu-dev-tools" theres a utility there that will
make it easy for you to identify reverse dependencies.
eg. reverse-depends src:mutter
Then you run the same thing recursively for all packages down to
the leaf packages (which has no reverse dependencies) and make up
a plan on how they all can be modified to avoid the dependency
or if they too needs to be removed. Then work your way from the
leaf packages down to mutter having no reverse dependencies left
and finally you're ready to remove mutter.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson