Hi everyone, happy user of aurora as daily driver. My question is how to properly remove/mask a base package. ubuntu-family-fonts and solaar are not required (the former is messing up rendering in some sites in chromium) and so I have done:
This seems to work but on reboot nothing has changed. I just see “InactiveBaseRemovals: solaar ubuntu-family-fonts” when doing rpm-ostree status --verbose on the running image.
I’ve tried an override reset and doing it again from scratch but it doesn’t seem to have any effect.
Sorry if this has been answered previously, couldn’t find anything similar.
So perhaps it’s fixed now, or that triggering an upgrade removes the items that are in InactiveBaseRemovals. I’m not sure. Hope someone can shed light on this!
I don’t have an answer to your question but i hope someone will answer because i wanted to know the same thing, when i was using Bazzite i removed some softwares i didn’t need using the same command, then after some days it couldn’t update anymore because of that missing package making some kind of conflict, so i went back in time and it broke everything. Atomic distros are very new to me (only 2 weeks) but i think they really are the future so i will not go back to traditional distros, so i installed Bluefin instead which runs better with less softwares that i wanted to remove, so i removed only some of the flatpaks but i want to understand more about how things work without breaking them.
Other than some rare occassions there’s no reason to do local layering on a bluefin/aurora system. It doesn’t get you space back (it actually costs you more), and just slows down updates and reintroduces the jank we’re trying to get away from.
So the smart thing to do would be to install the right distro which ships less software we don’t need and maybe only remove some flatpacks so we don’t mess with rpm-ostree and keep the image as it is, that is why i prefer using Bluefin over Bazzite, it has less stuff i don’t need even if i also use it for gaming.
The main reason is that i didn’t know i could just use the main Ublue image, i’m very satisfied with Bluefin at the moment, everything i do on it just works well, fast and better than on any other distro, i’m just not a fan of the dino logo. There is so much information out there that even after nearly 2 decades using Linux there is still so much i don’t know, thanx for asking this question, now that my curiosity is itching I’m going to get more info about Ublue.
