Hi, if I understand it correctly, you want to separate packages from self-compiled binaries, but KDE likes to have all these things in one place ;) Just make a package. Go to the source dir of your app you want to compile and type "deb-make". A directory named debian/ is being created. Call "debian/rules binary" and your package will be created. Any configure options you want to set, you can set in the shell script debian/rules.
-- ----- Thomas Ritter
