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Gabriel Brown 88497826ec Let a machine say what it is for, and give Firefox its face back
Phase 4: the optional application categories, and the Firefox chrome.

Everything Panama installed until now was what every machine gets, which meant a
work laptop acquired emulators and a desktop that wanted Steam had to be told
about it by hand. The interview now offers the categories in
setup/packages/extras/ as a checklist -- gaming, creative, communication,
virtualization -- and nothing is preselected, because a default here installs
applications nobody chose on a machine whose owner answered a question they
thought was about something else.

A category is one file, and a category mixes both package managers because the
applications do: Steam is in RPM Fusion, Slack publishes only a flatpak. So a
bare line is a dnf package and a flatpak: line is a Flathub ID, and one file
holds the whole answer rather than splitting each category across two. The menu
is read from the directory rather than written down, so adding a category is
adding a file. Every name in all four was resolved against the actual
repositories before being written down, and the contract re-resolves them --
the point of admitting applications one at a time is that they stay installable,
and a typo here fails on somebody else's machine, not this one.

Firefox is declared, and its chrome is Edge-Frfox, vendored into config/firefox.
sunhat carried that theme with no license and no attribution; it is MIT, and now
it says so and says whose it is.

It is the only piece of Panama's configuration that does not go to a path this
repository chooses. Firefox owns the profile directory, names it with a random
salt, and does not create one until the browser has been run -- so link-dotfiles
finds or creates a profile and links both halves into it. Both, or neither works:
chrome/ is the CSS and user.js sets the preference that makes Firefox read chrome/
at all, without which the theme is a directory of dead files.

Two assumptions there were wrong, and the contract exists for both. Firefox has
moved to the XDG directories -- the profile root is ~/.config/mozilla/firefox on
this build, not ~/.mozilla/firefox, and writing to the wrong one themes nothing
and says nothing about it. And -CreateProfile turns out to be non-interactive, so
a fresh machine gets the theme on the first install rather than the second. The
contract runs link-dotfiles for real against a throwaway home with no profile in
it and looks at what came out; it was checked by pointing the search at the
legacy path only and watching it fail.

Also: the enrolment/enrollment spellings from the last commit are corrected. This
repository is US-spelled everywhere else -- color 1131 times against colour never
-- and consistency in prose is worth as much as it is in code.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NvgBuSWB5sE43yWmg21ozj
2026-08-20 21:24:15 -04:00

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adw-gtk3-theme
akmods
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
cascadiamono-nerd-fonts
decibels
# The Wayland build specifically; the x11 one cannot inject into this session.
# Its config is linked by link-dotfiles.
espanso-wayland
desktop-file-utils
dnf-plugins-core
ffmpeg
firamono-nerd-fonts
# A second engine to check pages against; Helium is the daily driver. Its
# chrome is themed from config/firefox, which link-dotfiles places into the
# profile.
firefox
fuse-libs
# Ghostty and its config in config/dot/ghostty are linked by link-dotfiles.
ghostty
# The Calendar agenda opens events in this; see CalendarAgenda.qml.
gnome-calendar
# NOT GNOME-session residue. Panama's own Settings hands off to this for the
# panels it deliberately does not own -- Online Accounts, Region, Colour,
# Accessibility, Wellbeing, Wacom. See SystemSettings.qml's panel allow-list.
gnome-control-center
# install-hardware sets the nouveau blacklist and nvidia-drm.modeset with
# grubby, which replaces an argument it already set rather than appending a
# second copy -- the reason that stage needs no editor.
grubby
gstreamer1-plugin-fmp4
gstreamer1-plugin-gif
gstreamer1-plugin-gtk4
gstreamer1-plugin-hsv
gstreamer1-plugin-json
gstreamer1-plugin-libav
gstreamer1-plugin-mp4
gstreamer1-plugin-openh264
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel
gstreamer1-plugins-good
gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras
gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk
gstreamer1-plugins-good-qt
gstreamer1-plugins-good-qt6
hipblas
jetbrainsmono-nerd-fonts
kernel-devel
lame
lame-devel
libva-devel
libva-utils
libxcrypt-compat
loupe
mesa-libGL-devel
mesa-libGLU
mesa-libOpenCL
mokutil
mozilla-openh264
# Arial, Georgia and Times, so web pages that assume them render correctly.
mscore-fonts
nautilus
nautilus-extensions
nautilus-python
nextcloud-client
openssl-devel
opus-devel
papers
python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
rocm-opencl
# The Snapshots page is snapper end to end; see scripts/panama-snapshots.
snapper
sushi
# Fonts the desktop names by family and would otherwise render as tofu.
# VictorMono is required: it draws every glyph in the shell.
victormono-nerd-fonts
wine
wine-core
wine-mono
winetricks
xdg-utils