Is there a particular reason for the use of the complete kde packages in the 
ports tree rather than meta-ports?  It seems to me that it would be 
preferable to handle these as meta-ports, to install the individual ports 
that package a single application or library.  It is already done with ports 
such as kooka and lanbrowsing, so I assume that this behavior could be 
extended to other parts of the packages without negative effects.

It could have the benefit of allowing (a more obvious means of) specific 
choices of packages, more particular dependencies for packages depending on 
specific KDE applications or their kparts, and isolating potential build 
problems within smaller ports that would not necessarily prevent installation 
of others.  Has this been considered before or am I missing some potential 
problems?  Would it add too much complexity to the packaging?

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John Stewart
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