Do we have control over packagekitd?

[m-weigand]

Something is triggering packagekitd to do it's stuff quite often (gnome software?), and that is slowing down the PN. I think that is not a good default if the PN is sluggish after waking up each day for the first 5-10 minutes...

20241016: For now we install the whole packagekit and gnome-software bundle in order to get GUI update capabilities. Let's see how that goes....

[diederikdehaas]

Yep, that is gnome software for you which automatically checks whether there is new software available.

$ apt-cache rdepends packagekit
packagekit
Reverse Depends:
  gstreamer1.0-packagekit
  plasma-discover
  gnome-software-plugin-deb
  package-update-indicator
  gnome-packagekit
  gnome-package-updater
  0install-core
  software-properties-common
  plasma-discover
  libpackagekitqt6-1
  libpackagekitqt5-1
  packagekit-tools
  packagekit-command-not-found
  gnome-software-plugin-deb
  isenkram
  apper
  enlightenment
  deja-dup
  cockpit-packagekit

I don't think you can easily get rid of it (but I rarely use gnome).

[m-weigand]

I want to increase the intervals where it runs and bogs down the PN. Getting rid of it is as easy as apt remove packagekit