question about vlc package

[François Charette <firmicus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today I needed to look at a video stream (with firefox) that required 
the vlc mozilla plugin. So I installed the vlc package but was surprised 
that it does not provide the plugin. The latter is in AUR/unsupported 
(as vlc-plugin) and requires building the whole beast just to have that 
one little .so file. Being a TU I could move vlc-plugin to community, 
but I first wanted to ask whether there is any compelling reason for not 
providing it with the vlc package in the first place?

Thanks,
F