manual compilation and package management

[Tobias Heinemann]

> I hope the following will make sense :) I'd like to compile KDE on my
> Ubuntu system using Konstruct -- but what's important that at the end
> it would be installed "by hand" as opposed to the regular installation
> procedure, using packages.

What's actually your reason for compiling KDE from source using Konstruct? If 
you just want to apply a small patch against the Kubuntu source of a certain 
KDE component, "apt-get source <kde-component>" plus dpkg-buildpackage and 
friends might be what you're looking for.

Regards,
Tobi