Many people say that KDE is bloated. Well, if it is, it isn't the only one:

stewie:~# aptitude install gnochm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data libaspell15c2 libbonobo2-0
  libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libgail-common
  libgail17 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomeui-0
  libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgtkhtml2-0
  libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgtkspell0 libgtop2-5
  libnautilus-burn1 libpanel-applet2-0 libscrollkeeper0 libwnck-common
  libwnck16 python-chm python-cjkcodecs python-glade2 python-gnome2
  python-gnome2-extras python-gtk2 python2.3-cjkcodecs python2.3-glade2
  python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gnome2-extras python2.3-gtk2 python2.3-numeric
  python2.3-pyorbit scrollkeeper shared-mime-info