Packaging exists to allow modularity. There is no modularity whatsoever with current Mandrake's packaging of KDE.
It is no news, kdelibs requiring galaxy-kde or the mutual requirement between kdelibs and kdelibs-common were already against common sense. As of today, kdelibs requires kdebase (kdelibs requires galaxy-kde, which in turn requires kwin.so, part of kdebase). Of course, kdebase requires 6 other rpm to be installed, and I don't know how deep this goes. This means that if I wish to run a kde application under any other WM, I still need to install a full blown KDE environment. So long modularity, it was nice to see you. =o= kk1
