> I don't think you're looking at the right thing. "packagekit" seems
> to be an interface to dbus. By itself, it doesn't do what you think
> it does.
Aha!
> There is probably some other package that's *using* packagekit to do
> the thing you don't want done. Is "unattended-upgrades" installed by
> any chance?
Hmm.... yep, it is!
So that's it?
I self-inflicted this by installing this package so many years ago?
Thanks,
Stefan