diff --git a/comps.xml b/comps.xml
index 1b043f8..b2242a1 100644
--- a/comps.xml
+++ b/comps.xml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
       <packagereq type="mandatory">budgie-desktop</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="mandatory">budgie-extras-daemon</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="mandatory">ultramarine-release-flagship</packagereq>
-      <packagereq type="mandatory">ultramarine-release-identity-flagship</packagereq>
+      <packagereq type="optional">ultramarine-release-identity-flagship</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="mandatory">ultramarine-flagship-filesystem</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-backgrounds-gnome</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-backgrounds</packagereq>
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
     <uservisible>false</uservisible>
     <packagelist>
       <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-release-pantheon</packagereq>
-      <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-release-identity-pantheon</packagereq>
+      <packagereq type="optional">ultramarine-release-identity-pantheon</packagereq>
     </packagelist>
   </group>
   <environment>
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
       <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-backgrounds-gnome</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-backgrounds-common</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-release-gnome</packagereq>
-      <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-release-identity-gnome</packagereq>
+      <packagereq type="optional">ultramarine-release-identity-gnome</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="default">gs-plugin-ultramarine-pkgdb-collections</packagereq>
     </packagelist>
   </group>
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
       <packagereq type="default">kwin-system76-scheduler-integration</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-appstream-metadata</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-release-kde</packagereq>
-      <packagereq type="default">ultramarine-release-identity-kde</packagereq>
+      <packagereq type="optional">ultramarine-release-identity-kde</packagereq>
     </packagelist>
   </group>
   <environment>