Is it possible to hide an application from the system?

The dependency you are talking about is phonon-qt6-vlc. If you have mpv installed, you can redirect this dependency to phonon-qt6-mpv:

Uninstall VLC under Plasma 6 (dependency phonon-qt6-vlc):

=> Install phonon-qt6-mpv first: yay phonon-qt6-mpv

=> Then uninstall phonon-qt6-vlc: sudo pacman -R phonon-qt6-vlc

=> After you have uninstalled phonon-qt6-vlc, then uninstall vlc: sudo pacman -R vlc

=> Reboot

However, phonon-qt6-mpv is a package from the AUR, so install with yay.

Edit: However, there will still be vlc folders in your /home directory that you will have to delete manually.

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