i had a bunch of other things to do today, but instead i sat around and decided to play with kde 4. the guys over at kdemod have made this pretty easy for arch linux users; after adding their custom repositories you can download and install the latest and greatest kde 4 via one command. they've actually been up to this for a while, but the last time i checked they didn't have up-to-date x86_64 packages, and, well, now they do.

this is what i'm talking about. review is to follow.

megaman will (eventually) become a fully-fledged graphical user interface for package management in arch linux.

after a multitude of (highly unsuccessful) attempts to compile and install kde 4 from source using the directions at techbase (everything would build fine, but i would encounter strange errors upon login and plasma was broken), i finally decided to format an i686 machine i had kicking around with arch and install the kdemod4 testing packages.

if you use arch linux, then chances are you've become accustomed to relying on the command line for package management. pacman is, after all, a very robust and powerful package manager, and definitely one of the distribution's strongest features. unfortunately, it also lacks decent gui frontends. i'm new to arch and the first thing i found is that most of the current frontends to pacman are either discontinued or highly confusing, so i've decided to take matters into my own hands.