On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 20:49, M Rawash <mraw...@gmail.com> wrote: > not really, unless you regard kde packages in [extra] as duplicates of > those in [kde-mod]. jre and jdk is just sun's jdk split into two > packages for the sole purpose of having smaller binary packages, but > serve no purpose at all if you are building from a pkgbuild. > > however, if you still see it as problematic, you can well remove it, > i'll continue to use it personally anyway.. > > cheers > >
The analogy doesn't carry very well here.. The kdemod repos 1) are not officially supported or endorsed, and 2) contain patches that change functionality. That being said, I wouldn't go so far as to entirely delete the package, I just think it's a useless duplication of effort