Plasma 6 (KDE) just reaching the repositories

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@Balder

Plasma 6 has installed this vlc-player together with phonon without being asked. How can I get rid of vlc without breaking phonon?

With every dependency that I have to uninstall to get rid of vlc, phonon is broken a little more or complete.

Phonon Gstreamer is deprecated and no longer has Qt6 support

For phonon-qt5, you have the choice to use phonon-qt5-gstreamer or phonon-qt5-vlc as the backend. This is not the case for phonon-qt6, which only has one backend provider in the official repos: phonon-qt6-vlc If you have any KDE applications that depends on phonon-qt6, pacman will end up installing vlc on your system if you don’t already have it installed—because phonon-qt6 depends on phonon-qt6-vlc, which in turns requires vlc. For mpv users, there is the option of using phonon-qt6-mpv-git in…