diff --git a/app-text/mupdf/mupdf-1.15.0.ebuild b/app-text/mupdf/mupdf-1.15.0.ebuild
index 440a343441f53..7d1f75d3ee14f 100644
--- a/app-text/mupdf/mupdf-1.15.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/mupdf/mupdf-1.15.0.ebuild
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ SLOT="0/${PV}"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
 IUSE="X +javascript libressl opengl ssl static-libs vanilla"
 
+# Although we use the bundled, patched version of freeglut in mupdf (because of
+# bug #653298), the best way to ensure that its dependencies are present is to
+# install system's freeglut.
 RDEPEND="
 	media-libs/freetype:2=[static-libs?]
 	media-libs/harfbuzz:=[static-libs?,truetype]
@@ -21,6 +24,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	media-libs/libpng:0=[static-libs?]
 	>=media-libs/openjpeg-2.1:2=[static-libs?]
 	virtual/jpeg[static-libs?]
+	opengl? ( >=media-libs/freeglut-3.0.0:= )
 	ssl? (
 		libressl? ( >=dev-libs/libressl-2.8:0=[static-libs?] )
 		!libressl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-1.1:0=[static-libs?] )