Comment # 25 on bug 1177395 from Jonathan Kang

(In reply to Chris Schaller from comment #24)
> Wait a moment.  Shouldn't GNOME_SOFTWARE_PLUGINS_BLOCKLIST=fwupd disable
> fwupd?
> 
> gnome-software still lists the plugin as enabled:
> 
> chris@linux:~/gs-issues> pkill gnome-software;
> GNOME_SOFTWARE_PLUGINS_BLOCKLIST=fwupd gnome-software
> 17:00:26:0724 Gs  enabled plugins: desktop-categories, fwupd, os-release,
> packagekit, packagekit-local, packagekit-offline, packagekit-proxy,
> packagekit-refine-repos, packagekit-refresh, packagekit-upgrade,
> packagekit-url-to-app, shell-extensions, appstream, desktop-menu-path,
> flatpak, hardcoded-blacklist, hardcoded-featured, hardcoded-popular,
> modalias, packagekit-refine, rewrite-resource, odrs, packagekit-history,
> provenance, systemd-updates, generic-updates, provenance-license, icons,
> key-colors, key-colors-metadata
> 17:00:26:0724 Gs  disabled plugins: dpkg, dummy, fedora-pkgdb-collections,
> fedora_langpacks, repos, epiphany
> 
> fwupd also shows up in my logs.

That's weird. I added `GNOME_SOFTWARE_PLUGINS_BLOCKLIST=fwupd` to collect.sh,
and
it shows fwupd as disabled plugin.