Today I got a couple of broken deps reports for packages in rawhide because of a
boost update, so I downloaded boost from koji (as rawhide is frozen for test1),
and tried to install it. However arts requires the old boost, so I tried to
remove arts.

This however not only resulted in the removal of KDE stuff, but also in the
removal of timidity++, and through timidity++ SDL-mixer which requires timidty++
and then many more games requiring SDL_mixer.

The problem is that quite a few libs which do midi wavetable synthesising
require  timidity++ for the patches and /etc/timidity.cfg, without needing the
player itself (let alone the library deps the player brings along).

The following packages (that I know of) require timidity++ solely for the
patches + cfg:
SDL_mixer
allegro     (I'm co-maintainer)
libtimidity (I'm maintainer)
wildmidi    (I'm maintainer)

So the patches and cfg files (+ cfg manpage) need to be in a different package
as the player + its manpage.

I see 2 solutions:
1) create a -patches subpackage, make the main package require this
   and modify the 4 packages above to update their requires.
2) put the player in its own subpackage, this way no other packages need 
   fixing, but users who do "yum install timidity++" will be surprised, and
   when people update they will loose the player (most probably won't care,
   but still this is bad).

I think solution 1 is preferable. If you want (and there is no acl) I can do the
split for you. I will naturally take care of all packages except for SDL_mixer,
for which I would be happy to file a bug.