drop fastfetch from machine-setup

It stopped a real install. The guard covered the wrong half: a PPA that fails to
ADD is caught and skipped, but one that adds cleanly while carrying no package for
the running codename gets past that and dies on `pkg_install_now fastfetch`.

It was also the only tool in the set with no source but a third-party PPA on Ubuntu
24.04 and older. A neofetch clone is not worth a branch in a script whose whole job
is to survive machines nobody has seen.

Removed from tools_default, the tool_command mapping and its installer. No shell
config invoked it, so nothing is left calling a missing binary.

software-properties-common stays in the core apt list for now, with a note: it
provides add-apt-repository, the fastfetch PPA was its only caller, and Docker
writes its own sources.list.d entry by hand — so it is now dead weight. Left as a
separate decision rather than folded into this one.

Verified: bash -n on all four scripts, and no live reference remains.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

scripts/setup/machine-setup/lib/packages.sh

@@ -84,9 +84,16 @@ LAST_SKIPPED=()
 pkgs_core() {
   case "$PM" in
     apt)
-      # apt-transport-https, lsb-release and software-properties-common are not
+      # apt-transport-https and lsb-release are not tools — they are what lets a
-      # tools — they are what lets later steps add the Docker repository and the
+      # later step add the Docker repository. They have no counterpart on the
-      # fastfetch PPA. They have no counterpart on the other systems.
+      # other systems.
+      #
+      # software-properties-common is still here and is no longer needed by
+      # anything: it provides `add-apt-repository`, and the fastfetch PPA was its
+      # only caller until that was removed on 2026-08-14 (Docker writes its own
+      # sources.list.d entry by hand). Left in deliberately rather than dropped
+      # in the same change — it is one small package, and pulling it is a
+      # separate decision from removing the tool that wanted it.
       echo curl ca-certificates gnupg git jq unzip \
         apt-transport-https lsb-release software-properties-common \
         wget zip build-essential python3 btop htop tree tmux ripgrep fd-find net-tools \

scripts/setup/machine-setup/lib/tools.sh

@@ -20,10 +20,17 @@
 MACHINE_SETUP_TOOLS_LOADED=1
 
 # The set installed on every machine, in the order they are fetched.
-tools_default() { echo lazydocker lazygit starship fastfetch; }
+#
+# fastfetch was here until 2026-08-14 and was removed after it stopped a real
+# install. It is the only one of these with no source but a third-party PPA on
+# Ubuntu 24.04 and older, and the failure was in the half that was not guarded:
+# a PPA that ADDS cleanly but carries no package for the running codename gets
+# past the `|| skip` and dies on the install instead. A neofetch clone is not
+# worth a branch in a script that has to survive on machines nobody has seen.
+tools_default() { echo lazydocker lazygit starship; }
 
 # The command that proves a tool is already here. Same as the tool name for all
-# four today, but kept as a mapping because that is not a rule — a package and
+# three today, but kept as a mapping because that is not a rule — a package and
 # the binary it provides disagree often enough (fd-find/fdfind) to be worth the
 # indirection.
 tool_command() {
@@ -31,7 +38,6 @@ tool_command() {
     lazydocker) echo lazydocker ;;
     lazygit) echo lazygit ;;
     starship) echo starship ;;
-    fastfetch) echo fastfetch ;;
     *) echo "$1" ;;
   esac
 }
@@ -80,23 +86,6 @@ tool_install_starship() {
   curl -fsSL https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh -s -- -y -b /usr/local/bin >/dev/null
 }
 
-# A distribution package everywhere, but not always one the distribution ships:
-# Ubuntu only picked fastfetch up in 24.10, so on noble and older the PPA is the
-# only source. Checked rather than assumed, so the PPA stops being added the
-# moment the archive has it.
-tool_install_fastfetch() {
-  if [[ "$PM" == "apt" ]] && ! apt-cache policy fastfetch 2>/dev/null | grep -q 'Candidate: [0-9]'; then
-    info "     fastfetch is not in this release's archive — adding the upstream PPA"
-    add-apt-repository -y ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-      {
-        warn "could not add the fastfetch PPA — skipping"
-        return 0
-      }
-    pkg_refresh >/dev/null 2>&1
-  fi
-  pkg_install_now fastfetch
-}
-
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Acting
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

scripts/setup/machine-setup/machine-setup.sh

@@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ fi
 save_answers
 
 # Always, and outside any step: everything below reads this index — core utils,
-# the fastfetch PPA, the Docker repo — and `step` skips a step whose name is
+# the Docker repo — and `step` skips a step whose name is already in the progress
-# already in the progress file. With the refresh inside one of those, a resumed
+# file. With the refresh inside one of those, a resumed run installed against
-# run installed against whatever the index happened to say hours or days ago.
+# whatever the index happened to say hours or days ago.
 echo ""
 info "Refreshing the package index..."
 pkg_refresh >/dev/null