Disable packagekitd-offline-update?

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Hi to you all
I’ve recently switched to kde/plasma in Fedora 41, and while I love to use it, there are some things that do not go that well with me. One of these things that come along KDE seems to be the packagekitd / packagekitd-offline-update service : it suddenly starts to update my machine while it’s rebootìng when I never asked for that and don’t need it in the first place (I’m using dnf-automatic).
So, is there a proper way to disable it please (systemctl stop / mask ?) ? Will this cause any issue with kde ?

Note : also, I suddenly realize mariadb was removed yesterday by packagekitd and … I have no idea how is that even possible. It seems to be some actions of mine :

5:00 PM
new remove-packages transaction /13907_dbbadaed scheduled from uid 1000
5:00 PM
in /13907_dbbadaed for remove-packages package mariadb-server;3:10.11.10-1.fc41;x86_64;installed was removing for uid 1000
PackageKit

Might be related to Discover but even then, I wasn’t doing anything worth removing mariadb. And I can’t find any dnf history transaction at 5:00 PM. What do you think happened ? Automatic dependencies removal maybe ?
Thanks for you help

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For gnome-software I used to do systemctl mask packagekit.service

I want to say Gnome-Software only worked for flatpaks after that but it’s been ages since I did that.

Packagekit is still using the older version of dnf so you may want to check dnf4 history to see if there’s something there.

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So, systemctl mask packagekitd-offline-update it is. Done.
hmm … nice suggestion @Joe, that was it indeed :

» sudo dnf4 history info 12099
Transaction ID : 12099
Begin time     : sam. 29 mars 2025 17:00:45
Packages Altered:
    Removed akonadi-contacts-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                   @@System
    Removed akonadi-mime-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                       @@System
    Removed akonadi-notes-24.08.3-2.fc41.x86_64                      @@System
    Removed akonadi-search-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                     @@System
    Removed akonadi-server-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                     @@System
    Removed akonadi-server-mysql-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64               @@System
    Removed grantleetheme-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                      @@System
    Removed kcalutils-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                          @@System
    Removed kidentitymanagement-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                @@System
    Removed kimap-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                              @@System
    Removed kldap-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                              @@System
    Removed kmime-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                              @@System
    Removed knotes-24.05.2-2.fc41.x86_64                             @@System
    Removed knotes-libs-24.05.2-2.fc41.x86_64                        @@System
    Removed kontactinterface-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                   @@System
    Removed kpimtextedit-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                       @@System
    Removed ktextaddons-common-1.5.4-2.fc41.noarch                   @@System
    Removed ktextaddons-qt6-1.5.4-2.fc41.x86_64                      @@System
    Removed libkdepim-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                          @@System
    Removed mariadb-3:10.11.10-1.fc41.x86_64                         @@System
    Removed mariadb-backup-3:10.11.10-1.fc41.x86_64                  @@System
    Removed mariadb-common-3:10.11.10-1.fc41.noarch                  @@System
    Removed mariadb-cracklib-password-check-3:10.11.10-1.fc41.x86_64 @@System
    Removed mariadb-errmsg-3:10.11.10-1.fc41.noarch                  @@System
    Removed mariadb-gssapi-server-3:10.11.10-1.fc41.x86_64           @@System
    Removed mariadb-server-3:10.11.10-1.fc41.x86_64                  @@System
    Removed mariadb-server-utils-3:10.11.10-1.fc41.x86_64            @@System
    Removed mysql-selinux-1.0.11-1.fc41.noarch                       @@System
    Removed perl-DBD-MariaDB-1.23-6.fc41.x86_64                      @@System
    Removed pimcommon-24.12.3-1.fc41.x86_64                          @@System

Now I think I was trying to remove knotes (i … think). Why it would also remove mariadb is beyond me. Next time when removing the zip package it will also remove podman ?
Well, either way, thank you Joe. I think using Discover for the first time is also going to be the last time.