Most of the webkit ports outside of the Mac are dependent on a number of support libraries and build tools. In some cases these are modified and or later versions then those generally shipped with the system. In general no one has the right versions of all libraries installed. The proposal is to create a new svn root called say webkitlibs that would act as a place to keep source versions of the various libraries and uncommon tools used with webkit. This would allow the use of a simple script in many cases that could check the local versions and grab only needed remote versions of various libs. Later prebuilt support libs could be added. In some cases say KDE or gdk the repository could simply house scripts that grabbed the right versions from the original server. Trying to track down all the libraries needed to build webkit for each platform is quite problematic today. This would also make it easy to create readme and wiki instructions later as webkit usage expands. The reason to go with a second repository is it will in general no one person needs all possible downloads and adding them to the WebKit repository would quickly bloat the download size. This could also if wanted become a place to house other open source projects that build on webkit.