VLC Plugins

[moxdrox]

I use KDE Plasma and i am not sure why all these VLC Plugins are installed.

List of VLC Plugins installed

extra/vlc-plugin-dbus-screensaver 3.0.22-2 (8.2 KiB 13.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-inflate 3.0.22-2 (7.8 KiB 13.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-journal 3.0.22-2 (7.2 KiB 13.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-twolame 3.0.22-2 (9.3 KiB 13.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-archive 3.0.22-2 (11.4 KiB 21.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-a52dec 3.0.22-2 (8.9 KiB 13.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-mpg123 3.0.22-2 (9.2 KiB 13.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-theora 3.0.22-2 (14.4 KiB 21.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-vorbis 3.0.22-2 (15.8 KiB 29.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-gnutls 3.0.22-2 (13.5 KiB 29.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-speex 3.0.22-2 (16.0 KiB 43.8 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-shout 3.0.22-2 (10.3 KiB 22.0 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-dav1d 3.0.22-2 (9.2 KiB 13.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugins-base 3.0.22-2 (1.9 MiB 7.6 MiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-faad2 3.0.22-2 (12.3 KiB 21.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-flac 3.0.22-2 (12.6 KiB 21.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-alsa 3.0.22-2 (18.1 KiB 51.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-dbus 3.0.22-2 (33.8 KiB 82.0 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-jpeg 3.0.22-2 (11.8 KiB 17.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-opus 3.0.22-2 (15.0 KiB 25.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-ogg 3.0.22-2 (61.3 KiB 131.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-tag 3.0.22-2 (39.9 KiB 102.0 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-xml 3.0.22-2 (7.9 KiB 13.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-png 3.0.22-2 (9.4 KiB 17.9 KiB) (Installiert)
extra/vlc-plugin-vpx 3.0.22-2 (10.1 KiB 17.9 KiB) (Installiert)

VLC itself is not installed. Only Mediaplayer i have is MPV/Haruna.
Can i remove the VLC plugins? Or are they used by MPV/Haruna?

[swh]

MPV is a standalone player and has nothing to do with VLC. So in my opinion it must be safe to delete all that VLC Stuff if you don’t need it

[ajgringo619]

They’re also indirectly required by Okular:

Okular → phonon-qt6
phonon-qt6 → phonon-qt6-vlc
phonon-qt6-vlc → vlc-plugins-base
vlc-plugins-base → all the vlc plugins

[moxdrox]

Thanks. Good to know.

[ajgringo619]

In the future, you check a package’s reverse dependency tree like this:

For vlc-plugins-base:

$ pactree -r vlc-plugins-base
vlc-plugins-base
└─phonon-qt6-vlc
  └─phonon-qt6
    ├─okular
    └─phonon-qt6-vlc

[swh]

I’m sorry, @moxdrox . You can forget what I said right away. I hadn’t really thought about it the way @ajgringo619 explained it.

Thankfully, you didn’t listen to me

[moxdrox]

no problem. Uninstall doesn’t work because of dependency.

thanks @ajgringo619 for the pactree hint. There is always something new to learn

[Pudge]

As an experiment, I just did a fresh install of KDE Plasma using the Titan ISO.
After choosing Plasma, on the next screen at the bottom of the list was
KDE Plasma. I opened the list of packages and unchecked okular. So okular was not installed.

After the install finished, I did the following checks.

[don@Odin ~]$ pacman -Q | grep okular
[don@Odin ~]$ pacman -Q | grep vlc
[don@Odin ~]$ pacman -Q | grep phonon
[don@Odin ~]$ 

This proves @ajgringo619 was correct about ocular, and also proves nothing else is dependent on any vlc packages.

It boils down to:
Use okular as your document viewer and put up with the vlc dependencies
OR
Don’t install okular, and then install a different document viewer that doesn’t use vlc dependencies.

Pudge