Question about uninstall VLC under Plasma 6

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Also the vlc is the only supported backend for Plasma.
The gstreamer backend has not been updated in years (even if someone ported it to qt6) and is rightly considered deprecated.
Yes, given the dependencies this means you need to have vlc installed on KDE.

KDE Plasma 6 is coming out today. How/when do we update?

Well … My original comment was about qt6-multimedia-* Where you will likely be presented with the option of qt6-multimedia-ffmpeg and qt6-multimedia-gstreamer. Given the information above and related to gstreamer I opted for the ffmpeg variant. As for phonon-qt6* … there is only phonon-qt6 and phonon-qt6-vlc in the repos. (phonon-qt6-gstreamer-git does exist in the AUR, but) That means, as far as phonon* is concerned … then yes, you should get the vlc one unless you actively replace it wit…

Can't remove VLC

If the library packages had a ~50mb change (the size of vlc unpacked) then no one would bat an eye. With this situation you get that plus a menu entry (and the associated program). Sure, in my perfect world I dont have vlc because I use a different media player … but its really not worth bothering about.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Phonon