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Yogev

Member

Registered: 2005-08-10

Posts: 34

KDE split packages

Hi, i'm about to get a new computer (hopefully) based on 64BIT so i browsed is Gentoo's website and i so that now gentoo has split ebuilds for kde, that means that if you want to install Kopete for example, you don't need to install all of kde's network stuff.
Why in Arch it's not like that?

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: KDE split packages

I't because it's too much work for the dev. Gentoo has more devs than Arch. However, some users have started to make PKGBUILD for stand alone KDE apps: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=13370

sepht

Member

Registered: 2005-07-07

Posts: 51

Re: KDE split packages

Why in Arch it's not like that?

because splitting up KDE's packages is something Gentoo developers do themselves. They take it apart and seperate it. Arch on the other hand distributes the packages as the KDE developers do, in kde-base, etc.

Yogev

Member

Registered: 2005-08-10

Posts: 34

Re: KDE split packages

Arch on the other hand distributes the packages as the KDE developers do, in kde-base, etc.

But arch can sterl seperate the packages and create virtual packages. (like in debian)

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tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,324

Re: KDE split packages

hi
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE
sorry i don't have the time to do it,
there are also instructions how to build single kde apps,
feel free to use abs and makepkg to get the apps you need.
greetings
tpowa

pbw

Member

From: Barrie ON, Canada

Registered: 2005-06-01

Posts: 65

Re: KDE split packages

Here's Kopete and here's the PKGBUILD for you. I've made standalone packages for most every kde app. Just want to test them on a base install with X and kdelibs before uploading them all to user contrib.

If you guys want a specific kde app, lemme know and i'll upload it. Just been busy and got sidetracked.