How to disable automatic installation of updates by gnome-software on Fedora 40?

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@random3456345

Omitting to mention that softwares are automatically installed in the name of “clarity” is not the way to go in my opinion.

Agree that this could be improved.

Feel free to open an issue in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues.

@random3456345

Also, the lack of transparency about package updates is something I regret about gnome-sofware. It doesn’t inspire trust.

You can click the app row in the Updates page to see what’s changed in 'Update Details dialog.

This is not within the scope of GNOME Software though. It’s up to the respective apps / packages to provide what changed as part of their appdata / metainfo XML file. Refer this topic for more details.

@random3456345

For exemple, my system had been freshly updated the previous day and now there was a new Calendar update with zero details. I wanted to know what had changed in the last 24 hours, so I went on the app’s website but I couldn’t see any official change made since months ago.

Also, it could be that downstream distros (Debian / Fedora / Ubuntu etc) made a small downstream packaging change (which might have nothing to do with the actual app like Calendar) and pushed a new version. This new version will also be shown as 'Software Update' in GNOME Software with downstream changelog aka what-changed (if they provided some info) in 'Update Details' or empty otherwise.