diff --git a/package/freedesktop/rarian/rarian.conf b/package/freedesktop/rarian/rarian.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1b53929c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/freedesktop/rarian/rarian.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+
+# install replacement for scrollkeeper only if scrollkeeper is not installed
+pkginstalled scrollkeeper && var_append extraconfopt ' ' '--disable-scrollkeeper-compat'
diff --git a/package/freedesktop/rarian/rarian.desc b/package/freedesktop/rarian/rarian.desc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fd726328d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/freedesktop/rarian/rarian.desc
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+
+[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+[COPY] Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+[COPY] the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+[COPY] the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/public/rarian/rarian.desc
+[COPY] ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2007 Clifford Wolf
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+[COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+[COPY] (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
+[COPY] License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
+[COPY] have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
+[COPY] file for details.
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+[I] a documentation metadata library
+
+[T] Rarian is a documentation metadata library based on the proposed Freedesktop.org
+[T] spec. It is written as a drop-in replacement of scrollkeeper.
+
+[U] http://rarian.freedesktop.org/
+
+[A] Freedesktop.org
+[M] The ROCK Linux Project
+
+[C] extra/development extra/documentation
+
+[L] GPL
+[S] Beta
+[V] 0.6.0
+[P] X -----5---9 800.000
+
+[D] 0 rarian-0.6.0.tar.gz http://rarian.freedesktop.org/Releases/
+
diff --git a/package/freedesktop/startup-notification/startup-notification.conf b/package/freedesktop/startup-notification/startup-notification.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..572eed78b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/freedesktop/startup-notification/startup-notification.conf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+. $base/package/gnome2/gnome-2.conf
diff --git a/package/freedesktop/startup-notification/startup-notification.desc b/package/freedesktop/startup-notification/startup-notification.desc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12cf24f58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/freedesktop/startup-notification/startup-notification.desc
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+
+[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+[COPY] Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+[COPY] the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+[COPY] the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/gnome2/startup-notification/startup-notification.desc
+[COPY] ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2007 Clifford Wolf
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+[COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+[COPY] (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
+[COPY] License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
+[COPY] have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
+[COPY] file for details.
+[COPY] 
+[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+[I] a reference implementation of the startup notification protocol
+
+[T] startup-notification contains a reference implementation of the startup notification
+[T] protocol. The reference implementation is mostly under an X Window System style license,
+[T] and has no special dependencies. 
+
+[U] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/startup-notification
+
+[A] Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com>
+[M] The ROCK Linux Project
+
+[C] extra/development
+
+[L] LGPL
+[S] Stable
+[V] 0.9
+[P] X -----5---9 800.000
+
+[D] 2748435765 startup-notification-0.9.tar.bz2 http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/releases/