I recently discovered the ublue-os/packages repo (nice!), and realized that it seems possible to uninstall the Bluefin branding packages in my custom build instead of doing all of this fiddly hacking in my build.sh.
I realize that I’m probably one of few Bluefin users who wants to do this, but I much prefer the “anonymous” look of stock Gnome.
Anyways, I’ve tried at length to remove, say, bluefin-logos, without breaking my image, but as soon as I do that gdm, gnome-shell, and most of the plymouth stuff gets autoremoved. I tried dnf5 remove --no-autoremove ... and dfn5 mark user gdm ..., but to no avail; gnome-shell and friends are still autoremoved. Next, I tried to explicitly reinstall these after uninstalling bluefin-logos but the build fails with Failed to resolve the transaction: Argument 'gnome-shell' matches only packages excluded by versionlock.
This brings me to the actual question:
How can I remove any of bluefin-logos, bluefin-cli-logos, bluefin-backgrounds, or bluefin-faces without also removing gdm and gnome-shell?
EDIT: I’m still blown away by how safe the atomic desktop approach makes this; I would have been very upset to have accidentally blown away gdm by uninstalling the wrong thing on arch or fedora or whatever else. This is yet another time where I am so thankful for all of the great work done by the vanguards of the atomic desktop!
