I'm currently running Mandrake 7.0 which came with an older version of
xmms.  I found xmms-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm on tucows and using kpackage tried
an upgrade with the following GUI options checked:

x    update
      replace files
x    replace Packages
x    check dependencies
      test (Do not install)

Received the following error

    Dependency Problems
    xmms is needed by xmms-esd-0.9.5.1-7mdk
    xmms is needed by xmms-mikmod-0.9.5.1-7mdk
    xmms is needed by xmms-skins-0.9.5.1-7mdk
    xmms is needed by xmms-mesa-0.9.5.1-7mdk
    xmms is needed by xmms-gnome-0.9.5.1-7mdk
    libxmms.so.0 is needed by xmms-gnome-0.9.5.1-7mdk

Not sure what to do I tried to uninstall xmms-0.9.5.1 but received this
error message.

Error
Cannot remove /usr/share/xmms - directory not empty
Cannot remove /usr/lib/xmms/Visualization - directory not empty
Cannot remove /usr/lib/xmms/Output - directory not empty
Cannot remove /usr/lib/xmms/Input - directory not empty
Cannot remove /usr/lib/xmms/General - directory not empty
Cannot remove /usr/lib/xmms/Effect - directory not empty
Cannot remove /usr/lib/xmms - directory not empty

Ok, I just continued anyway.  I'd gone this far, what's the worst I
could do?

On installation of the newer xmms package I received this error

    Dependency Problems
    xmms is needed by xmms-esd-0.9.5.1-7mdk
    xmms is needed by xmms-mikmod-0.9.5.1-7mdk
    xmms is needed by xmms-skins-0.9.5.1-7mdk
    xmms is needed by xmms-mesa-0.9.5.1-7mdk

I proceeded then to install without a dependency check.

Oddly enough, it works, in-so-far as I can tell.
Would someone be so kind as to explain why these warnings were there?