Comment # 6 on bug 981743 from Michael Andres

Actually '--repo' only affects which repositories are loaded into memory
(basically the same as temporarily disabling all other repositories). That's
why '--repo' can be specified multiple times, to load just a subset of all
repos. The installed packages however are sill loaded by default. 

The option however does not affect _how_ the information is presented. The
installed 0.16.99 (best version) is still the 'most interesting' known package.
Without packman being loaded, this version is not provided by any known repo,
so @System is displayed.


You can use 'zypper --disable-system-resolvables info ...' to prevent also
loading the installed packages. Then FreeCAD-0.16 from openSUSE-Tumbleweed is
the 'most interesting' package and it's data will be displayed. The status
however will switch to 'not installed', as no installed version is seen.