diff --git a/comps.xml b/comps.xml
index 80e63f4..3390281 100644
--- a/comps.xml
+++ b/comps.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
       <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>
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
     <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>
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
       <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>
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
       <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>
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
     <uservisible>false</uservisible>
     <packagelist>
       <packagereq type="mandatory">ultramarine-release-xfce</packagereq>
-      <packagereq type="mandatory">ultramarine-release-identity-xfce</packagereq>
+      <packagereq type="optional">ultramarine-release-identity-xfce</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="mandatory">ultramarine-xfce-filesystem</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="mandatory">lightdm-gtk</packagereq>
       <packagereq type="default">xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin</packagereq>