Comment # 6 on bug 1180597 from Fabian Vogt

https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/3efa0c5243c1ee762cee0d21af1052e4cc245f9d
is supposed to fix this issue for read operations, thanks!

(In reply to Jonathan Kang from comment #5)
> (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #3)
> > This step can be skipped by providing the full ID as argument. I was able to
> > reproduce the issue with pkcon that way:
> > 
> > localhost:~ # rcpackagekit stop
> > localhost:~ # pkcon remove 'util-linux;2.36.1-3.2;x86_64;repo-oss'
> 
> This is wrong. You can only remove installed packages which are something
> like
> util-linux;3.26.1-3.1;x86_64;installed. Removing available packages doesn't
> make
> any sense.

It works though *shrug*... I'll add a comment to the discover bug.

> And `pkcon remove $some-package` works as expected.