On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 12:47 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
2008/9/22 Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org>:
>
> If empathy didn't have a hard requires on some of it's plugins, like
> telepathy-haze (which pulls in libpurple) that would drop 20MB or more.
> IMO, the only hard-requires for empathy should probably be
> telepathy-gabble (XMMP) & telepathy-salut (local-link XMMP), the rest we
> should give a hard look at what we want to use a default in comps to
> reduce some of the bloat.
That would make it basically only useful for GTalk users which has
significant market share only in North America and parts of the Middle
East[1].
s/GTalk/all jabber users/
and since we're all about open protocols anyway. And since xmpp is the
most widely accepted open IM protocol (in fact it might be the only one
that's actually open)....
-sv