The problem is not coming from KDE, but from Mandrake. The only thing causing the requirement on kdebase is the galaxy-kde, which should not be required by kdelibs to start with. If you really want to force people who actually use KDE to get the Mandrake look, make kdebase require galaxy-kde, although this is already abusive. Kde applications can be compiled (and run) with only the kdelibs rpms. It was working pretty well before, why break it?
Well kdelibs is configured to use the galaxy theme by default, so it kinda has to require it. *Maybe* that wouldn't be necessary if the installer just made sure galaxy-kde got installed by default, but the Requires still might makes sense (like what if someone does a custom package installation?).
galaxy-kde requiring something from kdebase is a problem though. Maybe that could be fixed?
