I’d like to gte rid of packagekit. Leap 15.0 is installed on a very small network that doesn’t have any internet access.
I’d like to deal with the least possible of hassles. zypper remove seems to try to remove other stuff.
Alternative 1
remove from packagekit-background.cron from cron.daily
Alternative 2
modifiy /etc/sysconfig/packagekit-background with
ENABLED=no ==> yes
CHECK_ONLY=no ==> yes
UPDATE_OFFLINE=no ==>yes
Thanks
Although my main rig is connected to a DSL router, I like a lean, minimal and efficient system too. I prefer to use the Software Management module in YaST because there’s something to be said about graphically and interactively experimenting with package dependencies, and about the many ways YaST can display package information. After a fresh install and reboot, I usually first disable and uninstall whatever I won’t need (Plymouth, wicked, Baloo, NetworkManager, ntpd, Samba, smartd, sddm, all *-lang packages and so on, your mileage may vary). Whenever YaST thinks there are unresolved dependencies, I still can choose whether I’d like to keep it, risk dangling dependencies, uninstall those dependent packages as well — and/or set the packages to »taboo«.
Occasionally I check for any package recommendations via »Extras/Install All Matching Recommended Packages« (see screenshot), and I use the following commands to quickly log or look up what I had locked:
rig:~ ▶ **zypper ll | grep -i packagekit**
8 | PackageKit | package | (any)
9 | PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin | package | (any)
10 | PackageKit-lang | package | (any)
68 | gnome-packagekit-lang | package | (any)
rig:~ ▶ **zypper ll | wc -l** *# how many taboo packages?*
345
rig:~ ▶ **zypper ll > Documents/rig/lp150/zypper-ll-20190517-taboo.text** *# save taboo package list for future reference*
As you can see, I have uninstalled — and later set to taboo, or »locked« — 4 packageKit packages. Cheers!
Packagekit is triggered by timer:
erlangen:~ # systemctl list-unit-files packagekit*
UNIT FILE STATE
packagekit-background.service static
packagekit-offline-update.service static
packagekit.service static
packagekit-background.timer enabled
4 unit files listed.
erlangen:~ #
Disabling the timer is hasslefree. 
…and what should be the command to disable the timer?lol!
becouse mine is different
pla@pla4-TW:~> systemctl list-unit-files packagekit*
UNIT FILE STATE
packagekit.service static
1 unit files listed.
Since several weeks packagekit is additionally started on behalf of logged in users; it went unnoticed by me. The easiest way to disable is masking the service: systemctl mask packagekit.service see also: CentOS / RHEL 7 : How to enable or disable automatic updates (via packagekit) – The Geek Diary
Excellent rotfl!
Thank you very much