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>You shouldn't portupgrade KDE when KDE is running, but
>you should be able to run `make' to build everything while KDE is
>running, shut down KDE and `portupgrade -w' afterwards (which will use
>the binaries built by `make' and install them, taking seriously less
>time than the original `make') and restart KDE. At least that's how it
>would with an ordinary port.

that's great! i never even thought of doing that... that way i can just 
apply the patch as was described in earlier emails and then make install 
from the kdebase ports dir and then use "portupgrade -w kdebase" to add the 
changes. thanks everyone for the great advice!

iain

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