bower.json auto includes css

[geoidesic]

This makes it really hard to override the default CSS.
How can one force it to exclude this?

[awerlang]

I used bower-installer to copy deps assets to a dist folder. Is that what you're doing? Perhaps bower already features this capability now. Either way you've to override this in the tooling itself. I have long moved away from bower, so that's what I could think of.

[geoidesic]

I use bower install angular-responsive-tables but the problem is that it includes the default CSS which has a @media breakpoint which doesn't work for us. I can't find a way to override this. Not sure what you mean by "override this in the tooling itself"? What are you using instead of bower?

[awerlang]

I used https://github.com/rquadling/bower-installer on top of bower. It takes the package main files and copies them wherever I want. If I don't want the exact set of files from a package, I follow the section "Overriding main files" in bower-installer's readme. Because AFAIK bower helps nothing with that when you don't want to distribute the whole package.

If you're aren't using any tooling and copying files manually instead, then you could just not pick this package .css.