On Sunday, July 19, 2020 9:34:00 AM EDT stan via users wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:45:54 -0400 "Garry T. Williams" gtwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
I knew how to disable the modular repository, although I didn't get around to doing it on this new install until now.
How do I shut off flatpak?
(That seems to be the vector for this unwanted daemon.)
I don't know. But, as it seems to be a Gnomism, I would suspect that masking packagekit, the Gnome package manager, would do it. However, that means that all updates have to be done with dnf, and you will no longer get notices of updates in the Gnome desktop. That is, you lose functionality.
I don't use Gnome -- I run KDE. And I already erased PackageKit. I never let that run on my systems.
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 12:44:03 PM EDT Tony Nelson wrote:
On July 18, 2020 11:45:54 AM EDT, "Garry T. Williams" gtwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
How do I shut off flatpak?
(That seems to be the vector for this unwanted daemon.)
No, they were brought in a few days ago as weak deps of webkit2gtk3.
I looked at the dnf logs and spotted this.
Upgrading webkit2gtk3 caused flatpak to be installed (along with xdg-desktop-portal-kde):
Installing weak dependencies: flatpak x86_64 1.6.4-1.fc32 updates 1.5 M p11-kit-server x86_64 0.23.20-1.fc32 fedora 189 k xdg-desktop-portal-kde x86_64 5.18.5-2.fc32 updates 191 k
I added excludepkgs to my dnf.conf file.
Problem solved.