Kde 4 apps in kde 3.5

Most distros now offer kde 3.5 with apps like ark, kate, kpdf, ktorreent replaced with apps from kde4. I am using kdemod and checked there site but you have to remove kde3 in order to use it. There are PKGBUILDS in AUR. How do I use these to replace my kde3 apps?

You don't need to remove kdemod3 to get kdemod4 apps, kde3.5 is in /opt/kde and kde4 is in /opt/kdemod. I'm running both environments on my computer as two different users.
What site were you looking for instructions on? The instructions on the main site are for replacing Arch's KDE3.5 with KDEmod3.5. In the forums there's instructions for getting KDE4, which also just tell you to get rid of other KDE4 things not KDE3.5

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