We are talking tens of megabytes. Even cutting the base installer in order to keep only the functionality YoutubeDL needs will have big size impact while increa

We are talking tens of megabytes. Even cutting the base installer in order to keep only the functionality YoutubeDL needs will have big size impact while increasing build infrastructure and efforts for a single functionality that not everyone uses. So, whoever needs it, better download it themselves. An option is to create a VLC plugin which will download and install YoutubeDL and will interface it if the user asks.