No they are not. They are architecturally necessary though. kdelibs is right now one big source package with many libraries that all depend on each other to some degree. 99% of the packages that are listed are exactly those libraries. Fortunately they are rather small so that does not matter much. Furthermore parts of these libraries require executable at runtime (provided by kde-runtime) which in turn require oxygen specific icons (oxygen-icon-theme). Out of all these oxygen-icon-theme is probably the biggest.
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