> Is there pending work that requires these new dependencies? Yes. > Otherwise, I would leave them out until they are needed. These inputs enables support for different codecs. Most of these inputs were not added because it wasn't packaged. I packaged them during outreachy project. I think, as a distribution we should provide the package with all its intended features, as provided my upstream. It is up to the user, whether to install gst-plugins-bad to their profile. :)