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].
I don't think there is any kind of upstream story for how you install
plugins outside of dropping to a terminal and using yum/apt-get
either.
[1]
http://billionsconnected.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/global_im_ma...