I haven't had an time to look at this so I'll put it out here in case any of 
you have ideas.

karbon (from koffice) currently fails to start on NetBSD with this error:

city-art% karbon
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol "init_libkarbonpart"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: The library libkarbonpart does not offer an 
init_libkarbonpart function.
koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: The library libkarbonpart does not offer 
an init_libkarbonpart function.


The same problem apparently existed on OpenBSD, from where Marc Espie 
reported:

  Basically, our ld.so (and I suppose NetBSD's) doesn't keep a tree of 
  dlopened object.

  The libkarbonpart.so is linked to parts of karbon, to save space between the
  basic applications and plugins, and init_libkarbonpart is in one of those
  linked libraries.

  But dlopen(libkarbon.part.so) + dlsym(init_libkarbonpart) won't find its
  symbol on OpenBSD...

Looks like OpenBSD fixed their ld.so to deal with this a few weeks ago but 
inside ld.so is not somewhere that I'll lightly tread.

cheers
mark