stan wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 13:54:35 -0500
> Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dario Lesca wrote:
>> > How to I can disable packagekid to download update?
> 
>> You can disable downloading of updates via gsettings:
>> 
>>     gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false
>> 
>> Doing this prevents rpms from accumulating, but you still end up with
>> several hundred megabytes of repo metadata (which isn't ever cleaned
>> up for old releases, so it builds up).  I just checked and there was
>> 800M on my system, with 147M for f26, which I have am not yet
>> running. When I do upgrade, it will be via dnf system-upgrade, so the
>> PackageKit data does nothing for me.
>> 
>> Alternatively, you can remove PackageKit and gnome-software if you
>> don't use them:
>> 
>>     sudo dnf remove PackageKit* gnome-software
> 
> Another alternative for disabling PackageKit

The poster asked how to disable "download updates", not how to disable 
PackageKit completely (a very different question and solution)

-- Rex
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