In theory: +1 But splitting VLC properly is a non-trivial task. See FS#21934 if anybody wants to give it a shot (there are some issues not mentioned there, such as vlc crashing KDE applications if not all plugins are installed)
Hopefully VLC 3 will make it easier. Daniel Micay via arch-dev-public wrote: > On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 03:39 +0200, Balló György via arch-dev-public > wrote: >> I agree with this, and the same apply for vlc I think, which recently >> lost >> its qt4 dependency: >> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packag >> es/vlc&id=b1a56bb8d107ebb51a6f2e32c67f866e2693517b >> >> -- >> György Balló >> Trusted User > > For a case like that, it should really just be a split package. As long > as there's still a main package named after the project for all the > components, split packages aren't annoying. It's rarely worth putting > in the effort to do that, but it's a much nicer way to do it than > moving the problem to users.