Index: kde/kde-intro.xml
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--- kde/kde-intro.xml (revision 0d00570f3758900ad6e93c201f91588474c5ce12)
+++ kde/kde-intro.xml (revision adb78ee9870fee714b2c898b46cb137340fdc050)
@@ -31,3 +31,16 @@
do not cover the installation of these packages here.
+All the KDE packages comprise of various components. The default is to
+install most of the components. If specific components are to be eliminated, the
+official way is to set the variable DO_NOT_COMPILE.
+This comes in handy when there are problems compiling a particular
+component.
+
+DO_NOT_COMPILE="component1 component2" \
+./configure --prefix=/opt/kde...
+
+The core KDE pacakges also honor this variable, but omitting components
+from the core packages is not advisable since it may result in an
+incomplete KDE installation.
+