I'd like any opinion about doing split installs using the method outlined below. Is this a reasonable approach or am I missing something obvious? It seems to work okay and does not involve any hacking or patching of /usr/bin/makepkg. This example is for building qt-copy and qt-copy-doc from KDE4 svn trunk using qt-copy/PKGBUILD as the "parent" PKGBUILD and removing the build() function from the "child" PKGBUILD.qt-copy-doc and putting that logic into the parent build_doc() function... pkgname=qt-copy pkgver=4.3.3 pkgrel=7 _pkgfqn=qt-x11-opensource-src-$pkgver ... other typical pre build variables build() { ... pre make instructions make || return 1 build_doc ## ie; requires build_examples() + PKGBUILD.qt-copy-examples #build_examples make INSTALL_ROOT=$startdir/pkg install || return 1 ... post make instructions } build_doc() { mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/qt cp -r $srcdir/$_pkgfqn/doc/html/* $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/qt cd $startdir makepkg --asroot -R -p PKGBUILD.qt-copy-doc rm -rf $pkgdir/* cd $srcdir/$_pkgfqn } # ll /home/packages total 38268 -rw-r--r-- 1 archlinux users 16812720 2008-02-10 16:07 qt-copy-4.3.3-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 archlinux users 22322007 2008-02-10 16:06 qt-copy-doc-4.3.3-7-any.pkg.tar.bz2 # pacman -Qi qt-copy Name : qt-copy Version : 4.3.3-7 URL : http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt Licenses : GPL Groups : kdesvn kdesvn-all Provides : qt=4.3.3 Depends On : libpng libjpeg libxi libxcursor libxinerama mesa fontconfig libxrandr dbus glib2 Optional Deps : None Required By : poppler-qt qca qimageblitz qt-copy-doc soprano strigi tapioca-qt telepathy-qt Conflicts With : qt Replaces : None Installed Size : 45785.92 K Packager : Mark Constable <markc@renta.net> Architecture : x86_64 Build Date : Sun 10 Feb 2008 16:07:08 EST Install Date : Sun 10 Feb 2008 16:07:13 EST Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Description : The QT gui toolkit # pacman -Qi qt-copy-doc Name : qt-copy-doc Version : 4.3.3-7 URL : http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt Licenses : GPL Groups : None Provides : qt-doc Depends On : qt>=4.3.3 Optional Deps : None Required By : None Conflicts With : qt-doc Replaces : None Installed Size : 56325.43 K Packager : Mark Constable <markc@renta.net> Architecture : any Build Date : Sun 10 Feb 2008 16:06:56 EST Install Date : Sun 10 Feb 2008 16:15:09 EST Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Description : The QT gui toolkit documentation --markc