Comment # 17 on bug 1202796 from Ricardo Branco

> So this is definitely a PackageKit issue.

I manage multiple Linux distros via Ansible: Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu & openSUSE
Tumbleweed.

The only distro which has a problem with PackageKit is TW.  Ansible is unusable
with it if I don't mask the service.

The best thing one can do after installing TW is:
sudo systemctl disable --now packagekitd
sudo systemctl mask packagekitd

It's the first thing in my Ansible:

- name: Disable PackageKit
  systemd_service:
    name: packagekit
    enabled: false
    masked: yes
    state: stopped
  tags: ['zypper']