fix the fail2ban issues and other things

tests/utils.bats

@@ -117,6 +117,45 @@ esac'
   not_called yay
 }
 
+@test "install_packages leaves out packages in skip-packages" {
+  export INSTALLED="" AS_DEPS=""
+  stub_pacman
+  mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/coredesktop"
+  printf '# Not on this machine\nlibreoffice-fresh\n\n  gimp  \n' > "$HOME/.config/coredesktop/skip-packages"
+  source "$REPO/utils.sh"
+
+  run install_packages git libreoffice-fresh gimp tmux
+  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+  called yay -S --noconfirm --answerdiff=None --answeredit=None --answerclean=None git tmux
+}
+
+@test "install_packages does nothing when every package is skipped" {
+  export INSTALLED="" AS_DEPS=""
+  stub_pacman
+  mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/coredesktop"
+  printf 'gimp\n' > "$HOME/.config/coredesktop/skip-packages"
+  source "$REPO/utils.sh"
+
+  run install_packages gimp
+  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+  # pacman -Qdq with no names would mark every dependency explicit
+  not_called pacman
+  not_called yay
+}
+
+@test "install-flatpaks.sh leaves out Flatpaks in skip-packages" {
+  mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/share" "$HOME/.config/coredesktop"
+  ln -s "$REPO" "$HOME/.local/share/coredesktop"
+  printf 'us.zoom.Zoom\n' > "$HOME/.config/coredesktop/skip-packages"
+  stub flatpak 'exit 1'
+  stub sudo
+
+  run bash "$REPO/install-flatpaks.sh"
+  [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+  called sudo flatpak install --system --noninteractive org.mozilla.firefox
+  ! grep -q 'us.zoom.Zoom' <(grep '^sudo' "$STUB_LOG")
+}
+
 @test "remove_packages removes only exact matches, not providers" {
   # herdr-bin provides herdr, so pacman -Qq herdr prints herdr-bin
   stub pacman '