Continuing on the idea of doing as little violence, i.e., braking as few dependencies, as possible, I wrote a couple of Bash scripts to print the names of the (remaining) installed KDE packages, then to loop through the list and attempt 'fink remove' on each. (I did it this way rather than with a single glob, so that failure to remove a package wouldn't stop the whole script.) I picked off a few ones that didn't depend on anything else this way with each iteration, until finally there were only six left. At that point I did su, then dpkg -r --force-all karbon, after which I was able to go back to my Bash scripts and finish removing the rest. (I'm immensely flattered that you ask, BTW.)
I've found that it's easier to use apt to do so, apt follows dependencies for removal too. Generally, you can do:
sudo apt-get remove kdelibs3-ssl-shlibs kdelibs3-shlibs
...to remove all of KDE. That's in the docs "fink info bundle-kde". ;)
-- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick -- http://ranger.befunk.com/ gpg: 6401 D02A A35F 55E9 D7DD 71C5 52EF A366 D3F6 65FE xar!
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