What's the difference between the kde4base and kdebase-kde4 packages?

[jwebster8]

I cant seem to install kde4base and I'm thinking it might be that I already have kdebase-kde4 installed already.

But this has me mighty confused.

[Snowhog]

Re: What's the difference between the kde4base and kdebase-kde4 packages?

kde4base:

This KDE 4 package is for development only, it offers no binary compatibility guarantee and will no help users.

[jwebster8]

Re: What's the difference between the kde4base and kdebase-kde4 packages?

ok

This leads to my next question

I'm trying to compile crystal window decroation 2.0.1
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=75140

The cmake goes fine, but when I run make I get the errors

crystal-2.0.1/client/crystalclient.h:31:25: error: kdecoration.h: No such file or directory
crystal-2.0.1/client/crystalclient.h:32:32: error: kdecorationfactory.h: No such file or directory

I googled for similar problems and found where these libraries were in kdebase-dev
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-82588.html

Now, I have kdebase-dev installed on my system, and that doesn't get rid of the problem, but since it's a kde4 thing, I assume I should install kde4base-dev, but when I do, I get the error

There was an error commiting changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages

Is this because I have kdebase-dev-kde4 installed? Why are there 2 different packages that seem to have the same thing?

WTF? All I want to do is compile a stupid window decoration.