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xerverius

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Registered: 2004-11-02

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Compile some of the KDE packages

I'd like to know if it's possible to compile some of the packages in the large kde tarballs.
For example, only compile kbounce from the kdegames tarball.
Is this possible with --enable-kbounce --disable-{all other games}, or remove the other folders before starting ./configure.
And does dependance tracking still works for only that package or for the whole tarball.

Greets, Xerverius

Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

Posts: 884

Re: Compile some of the KDE packages

as pacman works u can't without messing up your system.

pacman cannot manage that two packages own the same file, so if u force isntalling thought the files exist, when u upgrade/remove one of them their files will be missing, but the package will be there.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Compile some of the KDE packages

It's possible. Some users have made PKGBUILD for stand-alone KDE apps: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=13370
But it's quite involved.  You could always download the source and read the doc and configure file. Maybe you could use abs to only compile the apps you want.

xerverius

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Re: Compile some of the KDE packages

That was just where i was looking for, thanks  8)