Comment # 2 on bug 1061309 from Michael Andres

(In reply to Pavel ��imerda from comment #0)
> On the other hand the URL cannot
> unfortunately be used to remove or to modify the local repository
> configuration, nor is it treated as a noop when no change is necessary.

Intentionally. Zypp can't judge whether some arbitrary remote .repo file is
suitable to modify a local repo which happens to have same alias. You can't add
a repo with the same alias twice, no matter id .repo file or via CLI. 


If you want to remote control the local repo configuration of one or more
clients, you can offer a RIS service. Then it's visible on the client which
repos are intended to be managed remotely (see `zypper addservice`,
https://doc.opensuse.org/projects/libzypp/HEAD/zypp-services.html)