Please reconsider this request.
Installing an instant messaging app should not quietly pull in
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par
compared to the rest. They might be close to being good quality, but
they're missing something - be it a good code review, some
documentation, a set of tests, a real live maintainer, or some actual
wide use.
This increases the attack surface of the entire system, for
functionality which is probably not even being used.
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.cz/2016/11/0day-exploit-compromising-linux-desktop.html
Note that the description for pidgin does not even mention video or
audio chat capability. If nothing else, it would be reasonable to have
one package for text-only pidgin built without farstream/gstreamer and a
separate package (with more discussion of the implications) that enables
that functionality and pulls in the dependency tail--so users can make
an informed decision about what they want to do.
Mike Stone
