> 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