Hi KDE distro packagers, we are currently (Plasma 5.4) in the awkward situation that plasma-workspace has a hard Wayland dependency and KWin has only an optional build dependency. After the release of Plasma 5.4 I want to change this and turn some optional build dependencies into hard dependencies in KWin.
Reasoning: over the Plasma 5.4 cycle I have pretty much only worked on Wayland support and that has resulted in more than 100 #if HAVE_WAYLAND ... #endif As our CI system and most distributions only compile with Wayland support the risk of accidental breakage increases each day. Even more it means that running builds without this build dependency is pretty much untested. While it's unlikely to affect kwin_x11, it is possible, nevertheless. Given that I want to turn the following list of dependencies from optional to required in the next development cycle: * KF5Wayland * Wayland::Cursor * Wayland::Egl * xkbcommon * libdrm * gbm The following Wayland specific dependencies would be kept optional: * X11_XCB * libhybris * Libinput * udev I would like to ask you to try to compile kwin (as of master/5.4 branch) and verify that you can provide the listed required packages. If your distribution is not able to provide one please inform me ASAP about it, so that I can evaluate how much impact it has to keep the dependency optional. Please note that libinput and udev are only kept optional as to my knowledge BSDs cannot provide them. Unfortunately it means that the drm backend in KWin is not functional (doesn't support input) without this dependency. Thank you for your collaboration. Best Regards Martin Gräßlin Head of KDE Wayland porting team
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