Comment 7 for bug 83553

Yes, of course, it's not a single package for all of KDE. But some of those are still pretty big. For example, kdebase is 30MB of sources, and it generates a whole lot of binary packages: kdebase, kappfinder, kate, kcontrol, kdebase-bin, kdebase-bin-kde3, kdebase-data, kdebase-dev, kdebase-doc, kdebase-doc-html, kdebase-kio-plugins, kdepasswd, kdeprint, kdesktop, kdm, kfind, khelpcenter, kicker, klipper, kmenuedit, konqueror, konqueror-nsplugins, konsole, kpager, kpersonalizer, ksmserver, ksplash, ksysguard, ksysguardd, ktip, kwin, libkonq4, libkonq4-dev and kdebase-dbg.

Now, I don't know the exact build system in much detail, especially the KDE part. But as far as know all of those packages are re-generated at every compile (that is, any time at least one of them is changed), and as a result all are upgraded (at least, those installed). And it seems strange to upgrade konqueror just because, say, a bug was fixed in kate or in klipper. It's not just inconvenient, it's a waste of bandwidth—especially for the Ubuntu servers. It's not huge, but it is suboptimal.

(It used to be annoying for me, too, until I uninstalled most of them.)