Uninstall OpenRazer to Update System?

Bazzite
1

I’m trying out a Razer Viper mouse in Bazzite and used the

ujust install-openrazer

command to install Razer Genie. It looks like that command layers in things to Bazzite:

rpm-ostree status -v
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: disabled
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable (index: 0)
Digest: sha256:fbd9a04cf9fa5166b4b4fffa1efbd87433c8bc94027182a338f0b7c0b8acde82
Version:44.20260802(2026-08-02T04:03:42Z)
BaseCommit: 52b2fab324bb47f13870883564117e7d92c94e0be2a88ad9bc2572ab41345cd0
Commit: 8d39732ecb732eadac5b7ebd50417e9bb7b9d4bece7959fd2dfedc900e7abfe7
├─ fedora (2026-04-22T13:34:32Z)
├─ hardware_razer (2026-08-08T15:30:14Z)
├─ updates (2026-08-10T00:51:03Z)
└─ updates-archive (2026-08-07T02:11:31Z)
Staged: no
StateRoot: default
LayeredPackages: openrazer-daemon

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable (index: 1)
Digest: sha256:fbd9a04cf9fa5166b4b4fffa1efbd87433c8bc94027182a338f0b7c0b8acde82
Version:44.20260802(2026-08-02T04:03:42Z)
Commit: 52b2fab324bb47f13870883564117e7d92c94e0be2a88ad9bc2572ab41345cd0
StateRoot: default

According to:

Layered packages can break system upgrades until removed due to dependency issues since the package will have to be updated with the rest of the image. It also causes upgrades to take longer to run.

I’m not sure if leaving OpenRazer installed gets me anything (I just wanted to turn off the LED (now done) and see if there was a way to update the mouse/receiver firmware in there (looks like there’s not)). If I leave it installed, WILL it break updates or MIGHT it break them? Should I just uninstall the thing?

2

It can hold back your updates if there is for example kernel update which openrazer doesnt yet support. In that case you cannot update the system until openrazer pushes an update or until you remove the package.

3

OK. Thanks. Since it looks like I’ve gotten what I want out of the package and doesn’t seem to need to be present for that to work, I guess I’ll uninstall it.