What purpose is served by the existence of kde (the metapackage)?
kde is the package which administrators who want to try KDE should
generally install.
Is there a reason why not to clarify its meaning by renaming it as
'kde-full'
kde doesn't depend on the full KDE (for example, it doesn't depend on
KDevelop).
and having a 'kde-slim' package which includes the entire kde
minus development, games, texlive and other heavyweights?
I think it's late to suggest it. For the development packages, that is
kdewebdev, see #401862, which is solved in experimental. kde will
recommend kdewebdev. Maybe it should be downgraded further to a
suggestion. The tex issue will be resolved with okular replacing kdvi,
which should happen during squeeze's development.
That leaves games, but I don't think it's worth creating a new
metapackage for that.
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