Why is gimp required if I want kde-meta?

For starters, I'll answer my own question: Because kde-meta depends on kde-meta-kdesdk, which depends on kdesdk-kdepalettes which apparently depends on gimp. kdesdk-kdepalettes is a package that provides "Palettes for the Gimp that match the KDE standard color palette" (from the package description). Shouldn't it be an optional dependency for gimp instead of the current situation (requiring gimp)?
(This has been the case at least since 4.5, so I'm sorry if this has already been answered before. I couldn't find any results searching the forum.)

karper wrote:
Allan wrote:What use are palettes for gimp without actually having gimp?   If you do not want all the packages pulled by a meta package, then don't install it!
... which is an entirely valid point of view. However, the benefits of installing a meta-package (automatically adding new sub-packages upon upgrades) outweigh the disadvantages.
I was just wondering if instead of pulling in gimp, the color palette file (it's really just one tiny file) could be stored wherever KDE stores its color palettes...
Pacman doesn't do 'multiple possible locations for a file', I don't think any current package manager does. It would quickly become unworkable (what if gimp gets installed in future, do you move the file back?)

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