Hey guys, providing splitted KDE packages is one of most wanted feature request sine there was KDE in Arch. And people have good reasons demanding it. Let's have a look at the problem: The KDE project does not provide source packages for every single application but they put them in some kind of categories. E.g. there are kdenetwork, kdemultimedia, kdegraphics etc.. So if you want an VNC client you have to install kdenetwork and you'll get an instant messanger, download manager, nvc server, samba client and others including their dependencies for free. But there is hope: future versions of makepkg will be able to help splitting those packages in an easy way: http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/makepkg- git.html In fact KDE ist already prepared to be splitted; all you need to do is running make install in the right directory. After 4.2 will hit [extra] I'd like to work on this. This will also be a good test case for the makepkg implementation. In addition to this we'll need to update our devtools and db-scripts to handle those packages right. extrapkg should be quite simple; archrelease and repo- add should work just fine; only the db-scripts will really fail because they cannot guess the svn-dir just from the package name anymore. My idea of splitting is to create one package for each app like kopete and not split by data, lib, docs etc.. Those packages will be members of a group; so pacamn -S kdenetwork still results in the same apps being installed. And last but not least: You might wonder why we not just include kdemod. I had a little talk with funkyou about this. KDEmod/Chakra has different goals and philosophy and is not really compatible with the Arch way. So they'd like to keep doing their own thing. Greetings, Pierre PS: I have attached a quick&dirty example to just show you that this would not increase complexity that much; indeed I think this makes things a lot cleaner. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de