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Hardcoded Unremovable VLC

Hi,

$ pacman -Rns VLC will not remove VLC. Why simple removal of a player is impossible?

Upgrade to KDE 6 installed this VLC withouth my consent The only dependancy, I can figure out for KDE 6 would be one music player called Elisa. Elisa does not require VLC, although it needs libVLC. Since Elisa is crap. I never, ever had it installed.

Why do I need full VLC for KDE 6? What did you do? Wait! THERE'S MORE:

VLC is now so deeply hardcoded in Artix KDE 6 that it looks like the exact problem you wanted to avoid with systemd by creating Artix. Now the same thing happened to KDE 6. Removal of VLC is impossible (pacman -Rns).

If you try to manualy rm and rm -r folders you will end up with bunch of errors. Using any program: Browser, Kate (IDE) etc while opening attatchments/files or saving files will throw an ugly error. Since when Kate text editor  needs VLC to save files? WTF!

How do I solve the problem. I DO NOT WANT VLC, NOR I ASKED FOR IT (ffplay and mpv is enough).

P.S. Long long time ago, when I started with KDE (after GTK 3 fiasco and aftter usng XFCE), I used gstreamer as phonon. Nobody was forcing me to do anything.

Re: Hardcoded Unremovable VLC

Reply #1 –
Maybe is KDE harcoded?

Re: Hardcoded Unremovable VLC

Reply #2 –
Karen you seem to be unable to understand that this has nothing to do with 'Artix KDE'.
It's just 'KDE'

No one is forcing you to use KDE. If you have issues with the KDE design choices you need to take it up with them.
There is no phonon-qt6-gstreamer and I doubt there will be one ?

All sorts of Artix / Arch packages require other packages as hard depends and while it can be annoying when these hard depends are for some feature that I'll never personally use they are usually made hard depends because they have to be.

If you want as much control as possible over the dependencies of a distro you need to either use a distro like Gentoo or edit and build the PKGBUILD's yourself.
Whining, and misplacing blame,will make no difference.

Re: Hardcoded Unremovable VLC

Reply #3 –
Hello Sonar,

Have you checked to see what requires vlc using pacman?

You can issue this command to see what requires the package:
Code: [Select]
pacman -Qi <package>

and reading what the package is "required by"

looking forward to hearing back

Re: Hardcoded Unremovable VLC

Reply #4 –
@sonar Can you measure your assumptions a little and realize they are exaggerated? Even if you are proven to be right about something you have to ask nicely anyway.

Related to the subject, please return with an answer if you fixed it, most of your questions are left "in the air" and it looks ugly. I don't want to consider you a troll.

I hope I don't have to repeat this.

Re: Hardcoded Unremovable VLC

Reply #5 –
Off topic, although it may seem difficult to turn the literary tide on this one, I have several friends called Karen, using their name as an insult isn't very kind to them.  ::)

Escaping the VLC dep? Treat it like any other bug and downgrade and hold!  ;D

Re: Hardcoded Unremovable VLC

Reply #6 –
Quote from: ####### – on
I have several friends called Karen, using their name as an insult isn't very kind to them.  ::)
Point taken. It was poor conduct on my part. I apologise to all Karen's by name of birth everywhere.

Although, no word of a lie, I use to work with someone whose surname was Cock. I think he possibly had it worse than your female friends?

Re: Hardcoded Unremovable VLC

Reply #7 –
You might want to consider a user input error on your part, once you got over your ritual rage.

Code: [Select]
pacman -Rsn vlc

does the trick.