The monolithic kde-3.4.1 ebuild excludes kdesdk. kde-meta 3.4.1 specifically includes kdesdk. The comment in the monolithic ebuild was that kdebindings and kdesdk were excluded since they were for developers. I believe monolithic and meta ebuilds should be consistent. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. compare kde-3.4.1.ebuild and kde-meta-3.4.1.ebuild 2. 3. Actual Results: monolithic ebuild contains... # excluded: kdebindings, kdesdk, since these are developer-only packages RDEPEND="~kde-base/kdelibs-${PV} ~kde-base/kdebase-${PV} ~kde-base/kdeaddons-${PV} ~kde-base/kdeadmin-${PV} ~kde-base/kdeartwork-${PV} ~kde-base/kdeedu-${PV} ~kde-base/kdegames-${PV} ~kde-base/kdegraphics-${PV} ~kde-base/kdemultimedia-${PV} ~kde-base/kdenetwork-${PV} ~kde-base/kdepim-${PV} ~kde-base/kdetoys-${PV} ~kde-base/kdeutils-${PV} ~kde-base/kdewebdev-${PV} accessibility? ( ~kde-base/kdeaccessibility-${PV} )" meta ebuild contains... RDEPEND=" $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdeaddons-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdeadmin-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdebase-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdeedu-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdegames-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdegraphics-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdenetwork-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdepim-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdesdk-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdetoys-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdeutils-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdeartwork-meta) $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdewebdev-meta) accessibility? ( $(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kdeaccessibility-meta) )" Expected Results: same packages pulled in by both. Personally, I like the idea of kdesdk coming in. Lots of useful tools even for the user there! This _could_ cause an issue with people migrating from monolithic to split ebuilds.
I don't think the inclusion of kdesdk was intentional, so it's better to remove it for now to stay consistent with the monolithic ebuilds and with the way it has been until now. We should wait for future major versions to decide if it should be readded. (btw, I'm quite on the opposide side here, I think also kdewebdev could be trimmed from kde-meta...).
